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Friday 14 July 2023

Thursday 13 July 2023

Regal Princess













 Regal Princess passing Gourock .

Regal Princess is a Royal-class cruise ship operated by Princess Cruises, a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc, and is the second ship to sail for the cruise line under this name. Regal Princess was ordered on 17 February 2010 from Fincantieri and were constructed at the Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy, and debuted in 2014

HMS Northumberland (F238)


HMS Northumberland (F238) at anchor off Gourock.
 

Wednesday 12 July 2023

Monday 10 July 2023

Sunday 9 July 2023

Lucy Ashton

 

Lucy Ashton was built by T.B. Seath & Co. at their Rutherglen shipyard for the North British Steam Packet Co. to serve on the Craigendoran to Kilmun route. She continued the tradition of naming steamers after characters in Sir Walter Scott’s novels, being named after the main character in the novel The Bride of Lammermoor.[ Over the years she sailed on a number of different routes visiting piers in Greenock, Garelochhead, Clynder, Gourock and Dunoon.


Info courtesy of Wikipedia

Thursday 6 July 2023

VEENDIJK



 Cargo ship at KGV Dock Glasgow

HMS Cardiff





 HMS Cardiff is the second Batch 1 Type 26 frigate to be built at BAE Govan.

In the back ground you can see work taking place for the shed of the new the frigate factory.