While the HNLMS Van Amstel was sailing up the Firth of Clyde on a hazy Monday afternoon, an Astute class submarine was sailing out. The Dutch frigate F831 passed the submarine surprisingly closely at Inellan.
It is very unusual to see a nuclear submarine sailing on the Firth of Clyde without heavy protecting from about 7 police patrol boats.
Cunard Line’s luxury cruise ship, the Queen Mary 2, sailed down the Firth of Clyde this evening. The liner had been berthed in Greenock’s container dock as it was too large to berth in the usual spot for cruise liners.
You can see how large the Queen Mary 2 is in comparison to the passing MV Bute (Eilean Bhóid).
The MV Bute (Eilean Bhóid) sailing into the sunset en route to Rothesay on the Isle of Bute (Eilean Bhóid).
Chuffed that my photo PS Waverly sailing by (see The PS Waverly sailing by) is published in The Herald today.
A Vanguard class nuclear submarine sailing up the Firth of Clyde to Faslane with it’s usual police escorts.
A lovely old, three masts schooner was sailing down the Firth of Clyde today.
A Vanguard class nuclear submarine is heading out, sailing by Toward Point with it’s usual police escorts.
The tall ship The Eye of the Storm and the PS Waverly were sailing down the Firth of Clyde this afternoon. The much faster paddle steamer overtaking the clipper at Toward Point.
Chuffed to see my picture of the HMS Prince of Wales published in our local newspaper.
Tall ship The Eye of the Wind sailing past Toward Point up the Firth of Clyde.
There’s always something magical to see the last seagoing paddle steamer, the PS Waverley, sailing by.
The SS Sir Walter Scott is a small steamship that was built in 1899 at Dumbarton that has provided pleasure cruises and ferry services on Loch Katrine for well over a century. The steamer is the only surviving screw steamer in regular passenger service in Scotland and is named after the writer Sir Walter Scott, who set his 1810 poem Lady of the Lake, and his 1818 novel Rob Roy around Loch Katrine.
I wholeheartedly agree with David Ritchie, who took the below photograph of the SS Sir Walter Scott back in 2006, that recent restorations have unfortunately ruined the steamer’s looks.
The SS Sir Walter Scott in 2006, courtesy of David Ritchie