Don’t miss the opening ceremony of the festival which takes place at 11am on the Saturday 19th July when the Loth Lorien will be sailing up the Clyde before berthing by the Millennium Square at the festival site.
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The Glenlee first sailed in 1896 and circumnavigated the globe four times before being bought by the Spanish navy in 1922 and turned into a sail training vessel. In 1981 she was laid up in Seville Harbour and largely forgotten. Fortunately the ship was saved from the scrapyard in 1990 by the Clyde Maritime Trust.
The Glenlee is a 3 masted barque that was built in Port Glasgow to the design of Archibald Sterling and Co. Ltd. Berthed in Glasgow she is viewed as a cultural asset to the city.
On the quayside, the B-listed Pumphouse building contains an exhibition gallery and souvenir shop, complete with stunning riverside views. It remains an interesting example of industrial architecture.
The Glenlee is FREE to visitors over the festival weekend!
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The Royal Navy are bringing along two of their Hunt Class Minesweepers this year - namely: HMS Quorn and HMS Middleton. The Hunt Class warships operate in two ways. Firstly, they are ‘hunters’ that locate mines in the sea using high definition sonar and destroy those that they find using explosives. They are also ‘minesweepers’ as they can locate and destroy both buoyant mines and mines lying on the sea bed.
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HMS Middleton was launched on the 4th of July 1984 and was built in Glasgow by Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd.
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HMS Quorn was launched on the 23rd of January 1988 and was built be Vosper Thorneycroft shipbuilders Ltd in Woolston, Southampton. These spectacular ships are not to be missed!
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Pole Star, The Northern Lighthouse Board's Clyde built lighthouse
supply ship, is coming
for a second visit.
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FPV Norna was built by Richards Shipbuilders, Lowestoft and was launched in 1987. She is 72 metres in length and has a gross tonnage of 1,385. She has a crew of 16, a top speed of 18 knots and is used mainly for offshore enforcement tasks.
Sometimes referred to as Scotland’s navy – the Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency patrol the 127,000 square miles of Scottish waters from which 70% of the UK fishery is taken. Their ships are unarmed, but use the latest satellite monitoring systems to track the position of every fishing boat, both UK and foreign, to ensure that conservation rules are followed in some of the most exposed and hazardous seas.
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Attending for the first time is the Jacinta, a Fleetwood trawler that now acts as a floating museum of deep sea fisheries. In her working days, Jacinta was in the thick of the Icelandic Cod Wars in the mid 1980’s. |
Loth Lorien is a superb Dutch flagged 48m. long 3 masted gaff rigged schooner. She was built as a herring lugger in 1907 at Bergen and since converted as a small cruise ship with cabin accommodation for 34, a saloon that seats 50, and a jacuzzi on the deck!
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All visiting ships are free of charge to board
Please note that all programme information is subject to change
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