The Firth of Forth

Hound Point

and tugs in the Firth of Forth, 2 miles NE of Queensferry

Tugs moored beside Hound Point

Tugs at Hound Point, near Queensferry, in the Firth of Forth

©  Copyright: Peter Stubbs  -  peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk                                                                                                                                                                                    Photograph taken at 5.00pm on July 14, 2006

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   Tugs at Hound Point, near Queensferry, in the Firth of Forth ©

 

Hound Point

Hound point is a terminal in the Firth of Forth, about 2 miles NE of Queensferry.

Oil is pumped into tankers for export at Hound Point.

The two tugs in this view are named Hopetoun and Cramond.  Please click on the link below to zoom-in on the most distant of these two tugs, Hopetoun:

 The tug, Hopetoun, at Hound Point, near Queensferry, in the Firth of Forth ©

The lighthouse, just visible in the distance between Hound Point terminal and the tugs is Oxcars

The island just visible in the distance to the right of the tugs is Inchkeith, about 4 miles NE of Leith

 

Queensferry to Inchcolm

Firth of Forth

 

 

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