St. Mungo (fireboat) St. Mungo (fireboat) The St. Mungo was a fireboat operated by Glasgow Fire Services, in Glasgow, Scotland, from 1959 to 1975. When launched, she was described as the most modern fireboat in the United Kingdom. The "St Mungo" replaced an earlier steam powered fireboat. Glasgow was once one of the busiest ports in the United Kingdom, and the "St Mungo" and earlier vessels provided an important service. However, by 1975 when the Strathclyde Fire Brigade was formed through the amalgamation of Glasgow Fire Services with neighbouring fire services, Glasgow's use of the River Clyde had changed, and the vessels declared
Saint Mungo led to a connection being made between this battle, the rise of Riderch Hael and the return of Mungo to Strathclyde. The "Life of Saint Mungo" bears similarities with Chrétien de Troyes's French romance "Yvain, the Knight of the Lion". In Chrétien's story, Yvain, a version of Owain mab Urien, courts and marries Laudine, only to leave her for a period to go adventuring. This suggests that the works share a common source. On the spot where Mungo was buried now stands the cathedral dedicated in his honour. His shrine was a great centre of Christian pilgrimage until the Scottish