1st Tank Brigade moved to the UK in the summer of 1941; personnel arrived in the Clyde on 30 June and were promptly moved to Salisbury Plain where they were issued sufficient Churchill tanks for training.
The Firth of Clyde encloses the largest and deepest coastal waters in the British Isles, sheltered from the Atlantic Ocean by the Kintyre peninsula which encloses the outer firth in Argyll and Ayrshire, Scotland.
•
In addition to the shipbuilding and engineering centres up river of Glasgow, Govan, Clydebank, Dumbarton and Renfrew the lower river developed major yards at Greenock, Port Glasgow and smaller ones at Irvine, Ardrossan, Troon and Campbeltown and boatyards including Hunters Quay, Port Bannatyne and Fairlie.
•
Rail services to and from the coast, including links to Oban and Fort William, are frequent, with city terminals in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Triton as the yacht was originally named, was built at Troon on the Firth of Clyde, by the Ailsa Shipyard.
These projections of the Clyde Tunnel, Kingston Bridge and Erskine Bridge expand into aerial perspectives of the Firth of Clyde and Loch Lomond as Jim Kerr sings "higher and higher" while the camera 'takes off'.
River Clyde | Clyde | Colin Firth | Firth of Forth | Bonnie and Clyde | Solway Firth | Radio Clyde | Firth of Clyde | Clyde Walcott | Clyde Fitch | HMNB Clyde | Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde | Clyde Kluckhohn | Vic Firth | Jeremy Clyde | Harry Firth | Clyde, Victoria | Clyde Drexler | Bonnie and Clyde (film) | Tim Firth | Forth and Clyde Canal | David Clyde | Clyde Tunnel | Clyde steamer | Clyde 1 | SS ''River Clyde'' | Port Clyde, Maine | Moray Firth | Jonathan Firth | James Latham Clyde, Lord Clyde |
In British waters it has a southerly bias to its distribution but has been found as far north as the Solway Firth and the Firth of Clyde.
Ironically, by this point, the migration of port facilities downstream to the deeper waters of the Firth of Clyde and improvements in engineering technology had allowed the consideration of bridges downstream of the city centre, namely the Kingston Bridge and, much further downstream than the Tunnel, the Erskine Bridge.
Ailsa Craig was named by the Craig family after a namesake island in the outer Firth of Clyde, Scotland, and the word is derived from the Gaelic, Aillse Creag, or Creag Ealasaid, meaning "Elizabeth's rock".
She supported the campaigns to end submarine operations of the Royal Navy and United States Navy in the Firth of Clyde, to hold another inquiry into the Chinook crash on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994, and the successful bid for the residents of Gigha to buy their own island.
Isle of Arran, one of the islands of the lower Firth of Clyde in Scotland
University Marine Biological Station Millport, originally at Granton, Edinburgh, now at Great Cumbrae on the Firth of Clyde
In the early part of the 20th century the Royal Navy used a measured nautical mile in the Firth of Clyde off Skelmorlie, known as the 'Skelmorlie Mile' as the range for speed trials of new warships.