Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

TIAN YOU passing Braehead Shopping Mall, River Clyde heading for Riverside Quay, Shieldhall, Glasgow

It was a bright but bitterly cold winter's morning in Glasgow, Scotland at the end of January and the early sunrise brought a temperature of -1C to greet the crew of the incoming COSCO cargo vessel TIAN YOU bringing a cargo of wind turbine components from Zhangjiagang (Central China, East China Sea, China) to adorn the Scottish countryside. 

 For our readers who are absolutely thirsting for knowledge of TIAN YOU's passage to Scotland then her travels were

11 November spent 14 hours in Shanghai (China)

13 November left Zhangjiagang (China) after 2 days

13 November was 1 hour in Nantong (China)

19 November left Yantai (China) after 2 days there

22 November left Shanghai (China) after 2 days there

and then on passage to UK

14 December passed Kukup Island (Pontian District, Johor, Malaysia)

16 December passed Port Klang (Strait of Malacca, Malaysia) .... Port Klang, at the estuary of the Klang River was formerly known as Port Swettenham)

16 December passed Penang Island (Strait of Malacca)

2 January 2025 passed Cape Town (South Africa) ... wonder why she did not use the Suez Canal ?

15 January passed Canary Islands

19 January passed Isles of Scilly (at southern entrance to the English Channel)

and then through the Irish Sea to Glasgow

TIAN YOU and accompanying tugs SVITZER WARDEN and SVITZER MILFORD nearing Braehead Shopping Mall at River Clyde, Glasgow

Tug SVITZER WARDEN assisting at bow of TIAN YOU

 Tug SVITZER MILFORD assisting at stern of TIAN YOU

The convoy approaching the berth, into the late January cold early morning sunrise