Charlie Tennant Ships Photos Collection

Dedicated to the Memory of Charlie Tennant

Index

Collection 1

Collection 2

Collection 3

Collection 4

Collection 5

Collection 6

Collection 7

Collection 8 - Being added to

Today's Picture:
REINA SOFIA

Charlie was someone you were grateful for having known and met.

That sounds like an odd way of going about being acquainted - but to us who spend our lives on this blessed internet, it's very often the way.

I run a website which is a collection of online forums, and Charlie was one our members. What brings us all together is a love of either the Clyde or ships, or, as is most likely, both.

Charlie loved travelling too and taking pictures.

One night I was hosting a small get together in my flat, Charlie amongst the guests. With typical-of-Charlie fashion he stood at the door when I answered and said, "Do you want a shock?"

I didn't really have time to express a desire either way, when he turned sideways round to show an empty sleeve - "It was either the arm - or me. I chose the arm - Right, that's that over with!" and he marched down the hall to the living room.

He hadn't even told me he had cancer.

For around a year Charlie battled with one arm and recalcitrant cameras. He even made up a contraption that would allow him to set the controls with the camera in front of his face. He never complained.

Sadly, the cancer came back and claimed him.

His son Andy approached me not long after his father's funeral and presented me with a huge box of photos. They would likely have been skipped,

It's taken me a long time to get round to doing anything with them, so here is the first instalment of what I hope to be many pages of Charlie's latter years of travelling and photographing the grey hulls and ferries.

NOTE: I will be adding pictures on a daily basis from now on: 27/01/2006