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RMS Queen Elizabeth in Firth of Clyde Dry Dock, Greenock, January 1966
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Doon the Watter - Firth of Clyde
RMS Queen Elizabeth in Firth of Clyde Dry Dock, Greenock, January 1966, for an extensive refit, including the installation of an outdoor swimming pool. Scanned from a transparency taken by David Palmar.
19 September 2007
Queen Elizabeth in dry dock, Greenock
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CEP - Greenock and Inner Firth of Clyde
RMS Queen Elizabeth in dry dock, Greenock in 1966. Constructed in the mid 1930s by John Brown and Company at Clydebank. RMS Queen Elizabeth was a Royal Mail Ship (RMS). She was sold to a Hong Kong business to convert her into a floating university. She caught fire during construction and capsized. She was partially scrapped where she lay. Scanned from a slide taken by CE Palmar
02 January 1966
Lunar eclipse of 28 September 2015 from Millport
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Firth of Clyde - Millport
Lunar eclipse of 28 September 2015 from Millport harbour, Great Cumbrae
28 September 2015
Arran from the Crocodile Rock, Millport
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Firth of Clyde - Millport
Arran from the Crocodile Rock, Millport, Great Cumbrae on the Firth of Clyde
26 September 2020
Common Seal eating a fish off Great Cumbrae
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Firth of Clyde - Great Cumbrae
Common seal (Phoca vitulina) eating a fish off Great Cumbrae, Firth of Clyde
15 November 2010
Common dolphin and a Harbour porpoise, Firth of Clyde
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Firth of Clyde - Great Cumbrae
Common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) and Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) swimming together in the Firth of Clyde. The dolphin has a larger curved, swept back dorsal fin and the porpoise has a small, almost equilateral triangular fin. In the background is Portencross Castle on the coast of North Ayrshire.
23 July 2010
Dumbarton with Dumbarton Rock and the Firth of Clyde
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Doon the Watter - Firth of Clyde
Dumbarton with Dumbarton Rock, the mouth of the River Leven and Firth of Clyde, probably in the 1970s. Scanned from a transparency taken by David Palmar.
19 September 2007
The mouth of the River Leven from Dumbarton Rock
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Doon the Watter - Firth of Clyde
The mouth of the River Leven from Dumbarton Rock, showing Sandpoint - the original site of the William Denny shipyard on the west bank of the river, before it expanded to the east side below Dumbarton Rock. The red building is Ballantine's whisky distillery, demolished in 2017. Scanned from a transparency taken by David Palmar.
19 September 2007
Ardmore - Old Red Sandstone conglomerate
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Doon the Watter - Firth of Clyde
Ardmore looking across the Firth of Clyde to Helensburgh with Old Red Sandstone conglomerate of Devonian age. The most recent work attributes these rocks to the Upper Red Sandstone age. Scanned from a transparency taken by David Palmar.
19 September 2007
Oil rig building in Port Glasgow about 1985
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Doon the Watter - Firth of Clyde
Oil rig building in Port Glasgow about 1985. Scanned from a transparency taken by David Palmar.
