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THE timing, in hindsight, could perhaps have been better. The Renfrew chain ferry ran aground (pictured) between 3am and 4am on February 28, 1956. It was not refloated until midday, which meant that its hundreds of daily travellers had to cross the Clyde in other ways. Some were taken by rowing-boats or a small motor-boat; others jumped on trams and buses at Renfrew Cross to catch the Linthouse ferry for Whiteinch. Coincidentally, just a few hours after the ferry found itself high and dry, the Clyde Navigation Trust made public its belief that both the Renfrew and Erskine ferries should be replaced by a tunnel or a high-level bridge. ....
IT IS a famous saying - the Clyde made Glasgow and Glasgow made the Clyde . The success of the River Clyde in the 17th and 18th centuries was down to the city s location facing the Americas. Merchants began to make commercial links and Glasgow became the international centre for the tobacco trade. However, the shallow Clyde was not navigable for the largest ocean-going ships and in 1662, Glasgow Council purchased land and built harbours where there was deeper water, at what would become Port Glasgow. There was mounting pressure to deepen the river so that large boats could reach the city. In 1759 the first of many Acts of Parliament was passed, giving town councillors the powers ‘to cleanse, scour, straighten and improve’ the Clyde between Glasgow Bridge and Dumbuck Ford near Dumbarton. ....
The Sugar Boat as captured by Andrew Clark in 2018 IT has been almost half a century since the MV Captayannis capsized in the Firth of Clyde - and amateur photographers and videographers have been fascinated by the sunken ship ever since. Commonly referred to as the sugar boat , the rusting vessel lies on a sandbank and has become a landmark for residents on both sides of the water, in Helensburgh and Greenock. Drone footage captured by the brilliantly-named Hovering Scotsman, and published on YouTube, shows the wreckage in its decaying state in 2019, and we thought we d dredge our own archives for a look back at the history of the famous shipwreck. ....