Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

E-mail from Miller with comments about this website

E-mail from Miller   November 2025

Hello Ships of the Clyde.Com

I would like to make some comments about your website.

  1.  Who are you and who runs it  and why,  and are you

experts on ships.

2.  . Why not on Facebook

 3.  Why do you often have large type stories

4.   Why do you always put in too much location of places

such as Glasgow, Scotland, UK because everyone knows

where it is

Miller

Sandra (Senior Site Administrator) replies :

Thank you Miller for your e-mail.   I notice that this is the

fourth time you have contacted us with questions and

suggestions.

1.                This website started in 2011 and is well-

established and is now operated and moderated by six

rather elderly people.   Also very many really wonderful

and kind and caring, helpful contributors send us their 

images, stories etc.

None of us would describe ourselves as “experts” or

“accomplished virtuosos” on ships, rather we would

describe us as being experienced and very competent

researchers

We, the six Administrators, are all over 70 years old and

adhere to the Mantra

  “  This website will always be free to use,  never have

adverts, and will never need registering to use it.

   And we will ensure that our site will be friendly,

gentle, conversational and entertaining “

   You ask in 1. Why we do it.   

Simply, we all have a long-time, passionate and

absorbing interest in shipping.   Not just for the Clyde

but Worldwide.

   With our advancing years  we try to gather

information and memories about shipping from all over

the world and put them on the website.

   We understand that

     “  This website will collect information, details,

stories, images etc. and make them freely available for

all present and future generations worldwide to explore

and remember the ships, shipbuilding and shipping life

which has now gone and will never return “  

   Being elderly Administrators we continually see people

passing on and their old shipping images or memorabilia

then being dumped by their families.   We always wish

that the people e-mail to us images of the items or stories, so that they can be put on the website.

 We NEVER EVER want the items themselves – just

photographs / images – as the originals are much too

valuable – and we will put the items photographs

/images / memories etc. on the website for present

and future generations to see.              

  2      Facebook         

 Researching and administering this website takes a

lot of our Senior-Citizens’ time and we do not have the

knowledge or ability or sophistication to add Facebook

to our lives.     

3     Large type

Some years ago we held a gathering / meeting in a

Wetherspoon’s in Glasgow (35 people attended) and many

suggestions were made.

   One suggestion was that, as most attendees (and no

doubt other viewers to the website) were elderly or

becoming elderly and were wearing reading glasses then,

to make life a little easier, some longish text should be

made larger (Word 24)

4     Too much description about Countries

Events in this website relate to many parts of the World.   And

thousands of readers, from many countries, visit the site

every month.

   So, although UK people may recognise Stanlow, Cardiff,

 Grangemouth, Ayr, Whitehaven, Birkenhead, Oban, etc ……

we cannot expect an overseas visitor, for example, to know 

them.

   Similarly we cannot reasonably expect UK readers to know

the whereabouts of Chennai, Massawa, Mtwara, Cebu, Lindi,

Belem, Zamboanga, Rejang, Kaohsiung, Moji, Warri, etc.

   For example, is it London (UK or Canada) … Hamilton

(Scotland or Canada) ….. Newcastle (England or Australia) …..

Halifax (England or Canada) …. Tripoli (Libya or Lebanon.) ....

Boston (England or USA) ..... Irvine (Scotland or USA) .....

Ardrossan (Scotland or South Australia) ....

Hope all this answers your comments

Sandra (Senior Administrator, Gourock, Scotland, UK)