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View of the docks at the River Clyde. King George V Dock is a dock for ocean-going vessels operated by the Clyde Port Authority in the Shieldhall area of Glasgow in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It is located near Braehead in Renfrewshire and lies on the boundary between the council areas of Renfrewshire and the City of Glasgow.
Port type Ferry service Notes Port of Aberdeen Aberdeen: Aberdeen Oil, Commercial, Cruise, Cargo, Renewables and Ferry Yes Largest and busiest port in Scotland Ardossan Harbour Ardrossan: North Ayrshire: Commercial Yes Sullom Voe Terminal: Sullom Voe: Shetland: Oil No Accepts largest vessels in world [2] Lerwick Harbour Lerwick: Shetland
Phases 1 and 2 of Glasgow Harbour in 2011. Glasgow Harbour is a private sector urban regeneration scheme at Partick in the West End of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. [1] It is not the history and development of the wider and internationally famous Glasgow Harbour from Glasgow Green to Clydebank which developed from the early 1800s and witnessed the birth and growth of modern shipbuilding and ...
Pacific Quay to the right of the River Clyde, showing the HQ of BBC Scotland, the Glasgow Science Centre and new housing developments. Pacific Quay is an area south of the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland. It is located at the former Plantation Quay and Princes' Dock Basin. [1]
The Port Dundas terminus was established at One Hundred Acre Hill between 1786 and 1790 and was named after Sir Lawrence Dundas, one of the major backers of the Forth and Clyde Canal Company. Port Dundas formed the terminus of a branch of the Forth and Clyde Canal in the centre of Glasgow, linking to the adjacent Monkland Canal. [1]
Map of the Glasgow docks in 1909 showing D & W Henderson & Co. David & William Henderson and Company was a Scottish marine engineering and shipbuilding company, based on Clydeside. It was founded in 1872 and traded until 1936. Its shipyard was on the north bank of the River Clyde at its confluence with the River Kelvin. Scotway House in 2013
The river then flows west, out of Glasgow, past Renfrew, under the Erskine Bridge, and past Dumbarton on the northern shore and the sandbank at Ardmore Point between Cardross and Helensburgh. Opposite, on the southern shore, is the last remaining Lower Clyde shipyard, at Port Glasgow.
Today, the Ferguson Marine shipbuilding yard, adjacent to Newark Castle, Port Glasgow, is the last merchant shipbuilder on the Clyde, and it is owned by the Scottish Government. [65] In Greenock, the large dry dock and ship-repair facilities at Inchgreen opened in 1964, and were subsequently taken over by Scott Lithgow. The dry dock there is ...