The remains of one of four sailing schooners abandoned at the Newshot Island Boat Graveyard on the Clyde at Erskine after a fire at the Kingston Dock in Glasgow in 1914.

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When no longer needed, some of these punts, along with other vessels, were taken to this inlet off the Clyde near Erskine and left to decay on the muddy foreshore. This created a boat graveyard which can still be seen to this day.

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This was a continuous and essential process aimed at preventing the Clyde from silting up and becoming unnavigable to the large ships on which Glasgow's economy depended.

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They were once part of a fleet of hundreds of floating platforms which were used to move mud dredged from the bottom of the Clyde in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Abandoned mud punts at Newshot Island on the Clyde, with the Clydebank Titan Crane in the background.

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