[BITList] Sugar Boat shipwreck: The River Clyde's unlikely landmark - BBC News

[HUGH]

Mike,

A lovely photo there, looking west, with the peaks of Arran in the far distance. There's no shortage of sandbars (we call them the sandbanks) on the Clyde for vessels to run onto. When the Scottish Hawk was launched in Greenock a sudden wind came up. I saw the launch from the top storey of John G Kincaid's office building opposite. The vessel bounced off some things on the way down the ways, then took off in the direction of a tug, almost capsizing it. Thus encouraged, she dashed upriver pursued by the tug, and stuck on a sandbank a fair way upriver. My father was aboard her, as I learned when I got home. I've lived and worked with a good view of the Clyde sandbank up the middle of the river for almost all my working life, and I've never stood on them. I once, many years ago, had the loan of a small rowing boat at the Davie Shore, and planned to take self and younger daughter over to the bank.  Two feet out she panicked, and the expedition was cancelled.

Hugh.
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