HMS Defender on way downriver now
(Updated 19.30 below) HMS Defender is on the move down-river from BAE Scotstoun, escorted by tugs Battler and Bruiser.At this minute (11.55 9th march) she is coming up on the James Watt Dock at...
View ArticleCraignish Boat Jumble and car Boot Sale
Sellers from Ireland, Edinburgh, Ayrshire and Caithness, as well as from Argyll, will be at what is now an established event in the calendar, Craignish Community Company’s annual Boat Jumble and Car...
View ArticleHMS Defender arrives in Portsmouth from the Clyde
The fifth of six of the new Type 45 destroyers – the Daring class – HMS Defender yesterday reached Portsmouth, after her passage from the Clyde, presumably for handover and commissioning into the Royal...
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Second Western Ferries boat launched in a week
MV Isle of Seil followed her sister ship into the waters of the Mersey this afternoon, 25th July 2013, from the Cammell Laird Construction Hall in Birkenhead.MV Sound of Soay made her own splash a...
View ArticleInterior pics of new Western Ferries’ boats
MPE, the maritime interiors specialist who have fitted out Sound of Seil and Sound of Soay, the new Cammell Laird-built vehicle and passenger boats for Western Ferries Dunoon-Gourock route, have...
View ArticleWestern Ferries forty years on: youngest fleet in the Clyde, 1.3m passengers...
As Argyll’s Western Ferries prepares today to welcome its two new ferries to the fleet for its Dunoon-Gourock vehicle and passenger service, it is looking at running the youngest fleet on the Clyde,...
View ArticleScottish naval architect and Napier University professor identify viable...
Alf Baird, Professor of Maritime Business at Napier University in Edinburgh, is well known as an informed and challenging voice on issues around the management of Scotland’s ferry operations.Stuart...
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