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The latest Royal Navy frigate HMS Cardiff, launched a few days ago, heading back up The Clyde and passing Cunard’s Queen Mary 2.
The SV 'Glenlee', built in 1896, is a beautifully restored 'tall ship' and one of only five Clydebuilt sailing ships left afloat in the World. She is heading back to Glasgow having been in dry docks in Greenock for a facelift, and will become the centrepiece of the new Transport Museum.
One of the riverside statues from the recently closed Clydebuilt museum. I guess it has been removed for moving to Irvine.
The Glenlee is one of only 5 Clydebuilt sailing ships that remain afloat in the world and she was restored over a six year period by the Clyde Maritime Trust
In November 1999, the Glenlee was recognised as part of the Core Collection of historic vessels in the UK. Chosen from a list of over 1,500 ships, the Glenlee is one of only 43 vessels recognised by the National Historic Ships Committee as being of pre-eminent national significance in terms of maritime heritage, historic associations or technological innovation.
MV Kyles is believed to be the oldest Clydebuilt vessel still afloat in the UK. It was launched on March 12 1872 by John Fullerton and Co. of Paisley and was destined for life as a cargo coaster on the River Clyde. She now belongs to the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine, and is once again being restored to working order. She is seen here having her plating rewelded on the slipway of the river at Irvine.
Clydebuilt is a sculpture to celebrate the important role Clydesdale horses played in the success of rural life, in particular around Boonah in Queensland where it stands with pride and the surrounding Fassifern Valley. It is lit at night and makes for a wonderful photograph but as we were there on a grey and wet day, I have done a little editing to ensure that the demanding intent of the sculpture is fully demonstrated.
"Clydebuilt”
“Clyldebuilt” stands tall, towing over 3metres high, a sculpture by internationally acclaimed artist Andy Scott, stands at the entrance to the town of Boonah as a tribute to the Clydesdale Horse. It is recognised by the Queensland National Trust as an icon to our National heritage. And consequently is the much-recognised logo of the Clydie Spectacular. The statue was built in a local Butter Factory workshop and a local economic development committee raised the funds to buy it after it had been displayed at the Swell Sculpture by the Sea festival in Sydney.
The “Clydebuilt” statue and the Scenic Rim Clydesdale Spectacular are examples of how heritage and art combine to not only maintain the history of a region but develop an event which brings together a community. The Scenic Rim community has taken ownership of this event and takes great pride in its delivery as well as the increased economic development it generates for the town by celebrating traditions and heritage created over generations".
A seven metre long model of the liner RMS Queen Mary on display at the Sea City Museum in Southampton. The Queen Mary was built on the River Clyde by John Brown & Company and operated between 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line. It is now permanently moored in Long Beach, California.
SeaCity Museum in Southampton features exhibits associated with the history of the port and has an entire section dedicated to the Titanic which sailed from the city on her maiden (and last) voyage.
To view a 360 view from the centre of this bridge - link below:
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In preparation for this weekend's Streamliners 2016 locomotive show in Goulburn NSW, Southern Shorthaul Railroad ran an eight loco light engine movement from Parkes to Goulburn, via the flood affected Forbes connection line.
Led by B61, adorned in a special colour scheme designed specifically for the festival. The trailing locos are B65 in special Auscision colours, GM27 and S317 in SSR's modified CLP scheme, S302 in the former El Zorro scheme, Pacific Nation liveried S306, GM10 in original SSR livery, and finally GM1 in the original Commonwealth Railways colours.
Almost 20 streamliners will be in attendance at Goulburn Roundhouse, with another couple running push-pull shuttles to an from Tarago.
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Just next to the War Memorial at Gourock is a bench seat with a WWI theme. The view is across the River Clyde to the county of Argyll.
From Wikipedia: The Clyde gained a reputation for being the best location for shipbuilding in the British Empire, and grew to become the world's pre-eminent shipbuilding centre. The term Clydebuilt became an industry symbol of high quality, and the river's shipyards were given contracts to build prestigious ocean-going liners, as well as warships. The Queen Mary and, in later years, the Queen Elizabeth 2 were built in the town of Clydebank.
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2022 - Partially Rebuilt for Creta Cargo Group ( Greece )
Since Listed as ORION entering service in the Aegean Sea
based in Lavrio
The 1978 Clyde car ferry Saturn (IMO 7615490) finally ended her 33 year service with Caledonian MacBrayne on 30/8/2011 and put straight into mothballs at Rosneath Jetty on the Gare Loch. This would last 4 years. Whilst 'escaping' the cutter's torch , as some 'doom & gloom merchants' predicted , she was bought by Pentland Ferries for use up in Orkney.
With the "Calmac Red Lion Rampant" still standing to the end and her name wiped out she is seen in mid-livery change and awaiting more dry dock time. Another month lapsed before she left the Clyde for good and sailed on 25/4/15.
Also Listed as ORCADIA > 2015-2021 ( 6 Years )
It seems that she had not been much utilised by her new owners and Laid Up at St.Margarets Hope and rumours of her further sale in January 2017
Caledonian MacBrayne Ltd is a major ferry company of over 25 vessels of varying sizes which serves the Clyde & Hebridean Islands in the west of Scotland
Maid Voyage on Feb 2nd 1978
2021 - ORKNEY TO GREECE
She left Scapa Flow on the end of the tug CHRISTOS LX1 towline in on 12/11/21 making for Piraeus Greece arriving safely on 4/12/21. For further use out in the Greek Islands with Creta Cargo Group entering service with them in late 2022
2023 - GREECE TO CAMEROON
After spending about two years in Greek waters ( 2021-2023 ) she made another voyage to Tiko Cameroon arriving there around the 7th February 2024 with refuelling and replenishment port calls along the way
being Listed as ORION K. and still Active in Feb 2025
In preparation for this weekend's Streamliners 2016 locomotive show in Goulburn NSW, Southern Shorthaul Railroad ran an eight loco light engine movement from Parkes to Goulburn, via the flood affected Forbes connection line.
Led by B61, adorned in a special colour scheme designed specifically for the festival. The trailing locos are B65 in special Auscision colours, GM27 and S317 in SSR's modified CLP scheme, S302 in the former El Zorro scheme, Pacific Nation liveried S306, GM10 in original SSR livery, and finally GM1 in the original Commonwealth Railways colours.
Almost 20 streamliners will be in attendance at Goulburn Roundhouse, with another couple running push-pull shuttles to an from Tarago.
Seagull alongside the Tall Ship, next to the Riverside Museum in Glasgow
From tallship.com
The Clyde Maritime Trust owns the barque Glenlee, the principal exhibit at The Tall Ship at Riverside. Of the many hundreds of ships built in Glasgow’s shipyards, the Glenlee is one of only five Clyde built ships still afloat in the world today and she is the only one of her kind in the UK.
The Glenlee was built at the Bay Yard in Port Glasgow and was one of a group of 10 steel sailing vessels built to a standard design for the Glasgow shipping firm of Archibald Sterling and Co. Ltd.
The Glenlee first took to the water as a bulk cargo carrier in 1896. She circumnavigated the globe four times and survived (though not without incident!) passing through the fearsome storms of Cape Horn 15 times before being bought by the Spanish navy in 1922 and being turned into a sail training vessel. The ship was modified and served in that role until 1969. She then operated as a training school until 1981 when she was laid up in Seville Harbour and largely forgotten.
A British naval architect saw her in Seville in 1990 and two years later, the Clyde Maritime Trust succeeded in buying the re-named Galatea at auction for 5 million Pesetas (£40,000) and saved her from dereliction.
The Glenlee is one of only 5 Clydebuilt sailing ships that remain afloat in the world and she was restored over a six year period by the Clyde Maritime Trust’s paid and voluntary crew.
The small rural community of Boonah has some very interesting works of art. This horse is quite large. We decided to do some light painting on it. to make it stand out. The monument stands quite tall at the entrance to the main township of Boonah.
The sculpture "Clydebuilt" commemorates the Clydesdale horses which worked in Queensland agriculture.
British Sculptor Andrew Scott was visiting the local arts community when he decided to create the monument to the days when horses pulled the ploughs in Queensland`s agricultural scene. He welded and galvanised it and then offered it to the local council who hadn`t commissioned it. The council was unsure whether they wanted to purchase the horse but eventually relented.
Clydebuilt is the name of this sculpture, it commemorates the Clydesdale horses that worked pulling ploughs in Queensland agriculture. By British Sculptor Andrew Scott. Standing in Boonah, Queensland, Australia.
As part of the Clydebuilt Festival in Glasgow there are plans afoot to organise a long distance rowing challenge between Dumbarton and Glasgow. “Castle to Crane” will be a race open to entries from all coxed, fixed seat, coastal rowing boats. We are hoping that replica Birlinn “Orcuan” will lead out a fleet of up to 100 coastal rowing craft from all corners. The intention is to cap entries at 100 in the first year, so keep checking in here for notification of the official website for The Clydebuilt Festival, and details of how to enter. Don’t miss out on the first edition of what will become a classic race. Quoted from the Scottish Coastal Rowing Association website.
Tall Ship at the Riverside Museum in Glasgow, viewed from Govan on the south side of the River Clyde.
From tallship.com
The Clyde Maritime Trust owns the barque Glenlee, the principal exhibit at The Tall Ship at Riverside. Of the many hundreds of ships built in Glasgow’s shipyards, the Glenlee is one of only five Clyde built ships still afloat in the world today and she is the only one of her kind in the UK.
The Glenlee was built at the Bay Yard in Port Glasgow and was one of a group of 10 steel sailing vessels built to a standard design for the Glasgow shipping firm of Archibald Sterling and Co. Ltd.
The Glenlee first took to the water as a bulk cargo carrier in 1896. She circumnavigated the globe four times and survived (though not without incident!) passing through the fearsome storms of Cape Horn 15 times before being bought by the Spanish navy in 1922 and being turned into a sail training vessel. The ship was modified and served in that role until 1969. She then operated as a training school until 1981 when she was laid up in Seville Harbour and largely forgotten.
A British naval architect saw her in Seville in 1990 and two years later, the Clyde Maritime Trust succeeded in buying the re-named Galatea at auction for 5 million Pesetas (£40,000) and saved her from dereliction.
The Glenlee is one of only 5 Clydebuilt sailing ships that remain afloat in the world and she was restored over a six year period by the Clyde Maritime Trust’s paid and voluntary crew.
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In private hands Inbound to Greenock from 2013
The 1967 Clydebuilt Pilot Vessel PV Cloch (IMO 6725341) is making good pace towards East India Harbour in Greenock by this time she had been sold out of Clydeport service and in the hands of private ownership and out on a family trip.
She was last spotted at Portishead Marina Bristol Channel in 2014. Her name had been removed by the time of this picture.
At 46 years old she was passed on to Jason Preece in June 2013 UK Historic Ships
Clydebuilt waverley heading into ayr for an afternoon cruise round ailsa craig
BUILT 1947
IMO 5386954
MMSI 2320001540
LENGTH 73M
BEAM 9M
DRAUGHT 2M
CALL SIGN GRPM
FLAG UNITED KINGDOM
Glasgow, Scotland, UK - November 5, 2018: The Clyde-built tall ship Glenlee is lit at night outside the Riverside Museum of Transport in the Partick neighbourhood of Glasgow.
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Rescued from Tilbury Docks arriving into the River Clyde
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The testament to her strength and after her rather quick 4-day 787nm voyage under tow from Tilbury to Greenock , the elderly Denny Bros Dumbarton 1933-built Turbine Steamer inches towards her final destination for now at James Watt Dock in Greenock on a superb but draughty day Doon the Watter!
She had lanquished at Tilbury Dock since 2009 after years on the Embankment in London and was almost certainly heading for destruction at a Breakers Yard somewhere until Friends of TS Queen Mary was rapidly initiated to quickly purchase her no matter what.
IMO 5287952 had her 90th Anniversary in 2023
WILL SHE STEAMING AGAIN?
Will the veteran steamer enter service once again sometime
May 16th 2016
Queen Elizabeth 2 being towed from harbour at Greenock as she does her final voyage before being decommissioned and heading to Dubai.
Full circle in my life...I was at the launch in 67 and here I am as she leaves the same river for the last time.
Sailing gracefully down the clyde under a rainbow going past Port Glasgow where she was built in 1896,Lets hope she lasts for another 100years
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Back in Clyde Home Waters 2016 After decades of absence
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If there was ever an appropriate elderly ship to rescue from the hands of the Breaker's it must have been the 83-year old veteran Clyde Turbine Steamer TS Queen Mary (IMO 5287952)
Constructed in 1933 at Denny at Dumbarton
Not long before the Cunard Liner RMS Queen Mary left her slip at John Brown's in Clydebank.
After being at her long-term berth on the Thames Embankment in London as a static restaurant ship , she was moved under tow downstream to Tilbury Docks back in 2009 where she languished for the next 8 years and always under threat of the 'Cutter's Torch'.
In a bold plan , the new charitable organisation #FriendsofTSQueenMary masterminded their audacious purchase just as the 'wrecking ball' was rumoured.
She is pictured having arrived on the river of her birth with tow lines fore & aft on a super sunny May afternoon as she is about to be berthed within James Watt Dock in Greenock for the first time in decades. After a few weeks she was towed further up the River Clyde to Glasgow for safekeeping and berthed under the Science Tower.
She went on to have her 87th Anniversay in 2020
Calmac's MV Isle of Mull headed south down the Sound of Kerrera, bound for Colonsay this morning.
IMO 8608339
The last remaining 3 masted Clydebuilt ship still afloat in the UK
An interesting find moored not far from Clydeside Distillery
Scotland Day 10
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In Operations 1956-1984 now Static at Irvine
Long since past her working days out of Irvine , the Imperial Chemical Industries ( ICI ) operated 1956 River Clyde Tug
Garnock (IMO 5126366) is seen aground resting on the harbour wall at her home port at Irvine looking quite forlorn. She was subsequently taken-in-hand by the Scottish Maritime Museum as a preserved static exibit.
HAZARDOUS EXPLOSIVES INCIDENT
One of her jobs was to transfer and dump explosives out at sea from ICI Ardeer. It was on one of these hazardous voyages in 1984 that her stern was nearly blown away and nearly sunk into the depths.
This effectively ended her career as a working tug as when she was deemed a constructive loss and uneconomical to repair.
She is now on the UK Historic Ships Core Collection
TS Queen Mary is towed up the Clyde to Glasgow Science Centre , passing fellow Clydebuilt ship, Glenlee at the Riverside Museum.
Glenlee was built in Port Glasgow for Glasgow cargo company Archibald Sterling & Co. Ltd. in 1896. She later served as a training ship in the Spanish Navy (and named Galatea). In 1990, when she was being prepared to be scrapped, she was saved and purchased for preservation. She was towed to Glasgow and was open to the public at Glasgow Harbour. She was moved to the Riverside Museum in 2011.
TS Queen Mary was built in Dumbarton and launched into the Clyde in 1933. She served the the islands on the Clyde for many years before retiring in 1977. She was later towed to Tlbury Docks, London where several ventures failed. In 2015, the charity Friends of TS Queen Mary purchased the ship and, after being made seaworthy, was once again towed back to the River Clyde and James Watt Dock in Greenock. After a spell in drydock, she has been towed to Glasgow for the winter.
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The Glasgow Tower is part of the Glasgow Science Centre complex and at 127 metres high it is the tallest fully rotating freestanding structure in the world. The TS Queen Mary (the last Clydebuilt turbine steamer, launched in 1933) is undergoing restoration to preserve it as a museum ship.
Scottish Maritime Museum's puffer Spartan and coaster Kyles at the Harbourside Irvine.
Spartan:
Built in 1942 by J Hay and Sons, Kirkintilloch, Spartan is one of only two surviving Scottish-built ‘puffers’, a type of steam-powered cargo vessel first built during the 1850s for use on the Clyde and Forth Canal. Now on the Designated List of the National Historic Ships Committee, it was the first vessel in the museum’s collection when it was established in 1983.
The term ‘puffer’ came from the characteristic puffs of steam which would rise from a boat’s funnel - accompanied by a distinctive puffing sound - and the name stuck despite the fact that changes to engine design meant that only the earlier examples of this type of ship actually expelled their steam.
Sea-going puffers were being built by the 1870s, with vessels providing an essential supply link to the maritime communities of Scotland. Carrying all manner of cargoes, they traded mainly in the Firth of Clyde and the Scottish Highlands and islands. Built with flat-bottomed hulls, puffers were able to beach and unload their cargoes at low tide, without having to rely on suitable pier facilities being available.
Spartan has been much altered since construction, but was built as an inland waterways-style puffer with riveted steel plating and part pitch pine deck. At a length of 66ft, the longest a canal lock would allow, her design was based on that of two puffers - Ansac and Lascar - designed by Hay’s but built in 1939 by Scott and Sons of Bowling, West Dunbartonshire.
At the outbreak of WWII, the Ministry of War Transport had required a fleet of small cargo boats to be used for duties including servicing Naval ships and installations on Scotland’s west coast. Rather than designing a brand new type of vessel, it was decided that the 66ft Clyde puffer made an ideal model on which the fleet should be based.
A large number of these ‘Victualling Inshore Craft’ - known as the VIC series - were built, with most of these being constructed south of the border. Spartan, or VIC 18 as she was formerly known, was an exception. Most of the VIC series boats, including VIC 18, were fitted with steam engines due to the availability of coal and of men who could already operate this type of engine.
VIC 18 remained in Naval service until 1946 when she was laid up. She was reacquired by Hay’s in July 1946 and converted to join their fleet of puffers for civilian use, before being re-registered as ‘Spartan’ on September 24, 1946. She was the third vessel of their fleet to bear the name and replaced a previous vessel which had blown up and sunk off the Isle of Lismore on May 31, 1946. Her job was to carry cargoes including coal and bricks around the Firth of Clyde and even to the islands of Mull, Iona and Islay.
Spartan’s steam engine was replaced by a Scania diesel in 1961 by Hay’s at their Kirkintilloch repair slip and she remained in use as a cargo vessel until 1980, when she was laid up at Bowling harbour. She was handed over to the West of Scotland Boat Museum Association - a precursor to the Scottish Maritime Museum - in 1982, and has since been restored to working condition.
Puffer firms battled to survive from the 1960s onwards, with some of the larger companies, including Hay’s, merging to form Glenlight Shipping Ltd in order to improve efficiency. But with growing competition from subsidised road haulage and ferry services, and with the islands using less coal, operators began to go out of business and by the mid-1990s the puffer trade was no more.
MV Kyles:
The oldest Clydebuilt vessel still afloat in the UK, MV Kyles has had more than two dozen owners, retaining her original name throughout the whole of her working life. Launched on March 12, 1872 by John Fullerton and Co. of Paisley, she was built for Glasgow owners at the Merksworth yard and was destined for the coasting trade.
Kyles was a basic steam-engined cargo coaster, typical of those built by the smaller yards of the Clyde. She has an iron and steel hull, much of which is in original condition, and a steel deck. Most of the upper works date from major restorations in 1945 and 1998.
Coastal traders provided an essential service before land transport became dominant and there was no standard design of cargo coaster, with ships often being modified to suit a specific role. Kyles is an excellent example of this - despite having no spectacular history, the changes she has undergone as her many owners have adapted her to the changing demands of the coasting trade make her a truly fascinating vessel.
The original owner of Kyles was Stuart Manford of Glasgow, and she was originally used as a tender for the fishing fleet, collecting the catch from the Clyde fishing boats and transporting the fish to railheads on the coast.
A succession of owners followed, with Kyles carrying heavy and general cargoes on short coastal voyages in Scotland, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the South Wales area. Her port of registry remained Glasgow until 1900, when she was registered at Hull, and the first major changes in her structure came in 1921 when she was converted to work as a sand dredger in the Bristol Channel.
A familiar sight to many in this area, a letter from a Mr L G Gardiner in Ships Monthly magazine recounted his fond memories of watching Kyles as a child in the 1920s as she pumped her sand cargo in the channel. He recalled that that this was before her bow and stern were built up, adding that “when she was pumping she was low in the water and looked more like a submarine. In fact she became a bit of a joke with the sailors on the other dredgers because they said as long as you could see steam rising from the sand pump engine or an odd beer bottle thrown over the side, the little Kyles was still afloat”.
By the start of WWII, Kyles was out of service and de-registered. She was surveyed in 1942 while laid up on the Glamorganshire canal and found to be in poor condition, and 1944 she was sold on by a salvage contractor to Ivor P Langford, a ship owner and repairer based near Gloucester, who had her repaired and removed her dredging equipment in order to return her to a cargo role. She was re-registered at Gloucester and worked in the Bristol Channel for a number of years before being converted from steam to a diesel engine in 1953. In 1960 she was structurally altered again, this time to enable her to function as a sludge tanker for dumping industrial waste in the Bristol Channel. She was later downgraded to a storage hulk for waste, and continued in this role until 1974.
Despite the owner’s tradition of naming his boats after female members of the family, the name Kyles was kept out of respect for its long and varied history - and as the vessel was a favourite of Mr Langford, his family was keen to see it preserved once working days were over. An offer was accepted from Captain Peter M Herbert of Bude, who had himself a long career in the coasting trade, and Kyles became a much-loved vessel in the Bude area.
When the West of Scotland Boat Museum Association - precursor to the Scottish Maritime Museum - was formed in the early 1980s, Mr Herbert offered to sell Kyles to the group, and in 1984 the Scottish Maritime Museum became 24th registered owner. Kyles was re-registered in Glasgow, 112 years after its name first appeared in the records.
Funding for a full restoration of the vessel became available in 1996, and it was decided that the most suitable appearance to restore her to was to take her back to the 1953 refit when changed from steam to diesel power. Work began in 1997 to strip out the sludge tanks, reinstate the original hatch and hatch cover and replicate the mast and derrick. Her wheelhouse had been removed in the 1970s and this was replicated with help from old photographs of the vessel.
Work was completed in 1999, and after sea trials Kyles made a well-publicised arrival back at its birthplace on the River Clyde, then was put on display at Clydebuilt - the Scottish Maritime Museum at Braehead - before later becoming a floating exhibit at the museum’s Irvine site.
Recognised as one of Britain’s most important historic vessels, Kyles is included in the ‘Designated Vessels’ list of the National Historic Ships Committee.
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Step aboard the Historic Ship Glenlee G3 8RS
I noticed this photo opportunity as always , this time of the mast & rigging reflections of Glasgow's historic Tall Ship Barque Glenlee alongside the ultra-modern glass-panelled Riverside Museum next to the Clyde and is something a little different.
Called "Clydebuilt", this horse statue celebrates the early presence of Clydesdale horses who came with the first white settlers to this area.
It was created by famous artist, Andy Scott, who came out from Scotland, to weld it in a nearby art studio/barn.
I would walk my old dog, Bobby, past in the evening and wish I'd brought my camera!
It was a spectacular scene, to see Andy welding this huge masterpiece at night…
Sparks flying everywhere..
Andy Scott has many other scupltures throughout Scotland, and is very much a celebrated artist in his home country..
His latest, fabulous web gallery of his artworks, I have just dicovered tonight:
Enjoy!
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Just some of the many ship scaled models representing Clydebuilt Ships encased at the Riverside Museum in Glasgow
Crown Princess docked at Ocean terminal, Greenock on a very warm summer's day with storm clouds gathering. The Crown Princess is part of Princess Cruises company.
I like the bird and the person in the shot which add scale to this huge ship which is by no means the largest of cruise liners. At a total complement of 4,280 passengers and crew this is still the equivalent size of a small town though.
The sculpture "Clydebuilt" commemorates the Clydesdale horses which worked in Queensland agriculture.
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Visiting the veteran Static ship G83 8QX
Static resident at Balloch Pier the historic Maid of the Loch on Loch Lomond
This lovely passenger ship was built seven years after the famous Waverley at A&J Inglis & Co Ltd at Pointhouse on the Clyde and was the last Clydebuilt paddle steamer in Glasgow in 1953. After being bolted for disassembly she was taken up the River Leven by barge in bits then re-assembled before launching into the freshwater loch where she has made her home ever since.
After 28 years in operation on Loch Lomond she was then deemed uneconomical to carry on her regular service and withdrawn at the end of August 1981. Luckily she has survived several owners and thankfully not broken up.
The ship was added to the UK Historic Ships Core List in the mid-1990's. Today she is missing a vital component a new boiler but very well looked after by a group of dedicated volunteers and she might yet get to sail once again.
2023 being repainted and reverting back to her all white hull and yellow funnel under an overhaul on the local steam winch dry ramp
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Lead Ship Special Commonwealth Flotilla Upper Clyde
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One of Calmac's 'Hybrid' ferries Lochinvar (IMO 9652844) took the honour of heading-up the 250 strong flotilla of vessels on the River Clyde in front of the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games Flotilla
Caledonian MacBrayne Assets Ltd (CMAL) was successful in winning the Clyde & Hebrides Ferry Contract Tender from 2017
26th July 2014
One of the new Calmac ferries, the Glen Rosa on a foggy day in Port Glasgow on the River Clyde. #glenrosa #calmac #calmacferries #caledonianmacbrayne #portglasgow #fergusonsshipyard #clydebuilt #shipbuilding #shipbuilders #riverclyde #clyderiver #fog #foggy #foggymorning #foggymoody #mist #mistymorning
Just another glorious day on the Firth of Clyde with the Waverly crossing the path of the Rothesay/Wemyss Bay ferry or was it the other way round? The ferry slowed to allow the majestic Waverly to pass, and why wouldn't it? In the background, the Isle of Bute and craggy peaks of the Isle of Arran.
This is why we go to Wemyss Bay for fish and chips and eat it in this location. The constantly changing scene can be very interesting although on one recent visit to Wemyss Bay there was a large gathering of youths on the beach, maybe around a 100 people. Although they had a big fire they were really just enjoying the summer weather but to some such a gathering was possibly quite threatening, hence the Polis were called by a local resident or two.
From a British cargo vessel, an Italian ship of mystery, to a sail training icon of the Spanish Navy, the Tall Ship Glenlee has adapted to many changes over her 126-year history.
The sail-powered cargo vessel circumnavigated the globe several times, underpinned by the famous Clydebuilt steel hull that has far outlived her original purpose when she found new life as a naval classroom for building maritime skills for over 70 years in Spain.
Threatened with scrappage, the Clyde Maritime Trust bought the ship with an ambitious restoration plan in 1993, which has enabled a new life for the ship in Glasgow. The Tall Ship Glenlee continues to share stories of the people and places of the ship while providing a unique space for learning, heritage and entertainment in the city.
Clyde Built.
Shadows from remnants of the once proud shipbuilding and seafaring heritage of the Clyde.
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Ship Beached at Ghent Belgium for Breaking 12/7/12
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UK Gov Support Ship
Already Laid Up at Great Harbour Greenock 2012
Sonar Trials Ship A367 within the Great Harbour in Greenock with her long service already in severe doubt as she sits in Lay Up in July 2012 with only a mere 6 months left afloat at the time.
VESSEL BUILDER
Constructed in 1976 Greenock
by Scotts Shipyard
RMAS until March 2008.
Outsourced Operator Serco (Denholm) hence the prefix SD
2008-2012
Latterly utilised as an Amphibious Assault Support Vessel
before Paying Off.
IMO 7342940
Naming History
1976-2012 > RMAS/SD NEWTON ( 36 Years - END )