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In March 2023, Robert Morrison, CalMac Director of Operations, stated that the timetable set upon Loch Seaforth's entry to service was "ambitious" and "hard to deliver on a good day". [23] On 10 April 2023, Loch Seaforth suffered engine control issues en route from Stornoway to Ullapool. Upon arrival in Ullapool, services were suspended, with ...
Built in 1995, she remains one of only two ships in the CalMac fleet over 100 metres (328 ft) in length; the other, Loch Seaforth, being longer by almost 15 metres. Originally built to operate between Ullapool and Stornoway, Isle of Lewis rarely deviated from that route for 20 years. Since March 2016, she has served the Isle of Barra all year ...
CalMac ferry Loch Frisa fitting out at Leith MV Loch Frisa. MV Loch Frisa is a former Norled ferry bought by Caledonian MacBrayne in 2021. She was built in 2015 as Utne and operated for Norled for 6 years. She is a double-ender ferry with passenger capacity for 195, and capacity for 40 cars, or 4 HGVs.
Almost all CalMac ferries are facing disruption, with Largs-Millport, Mallaig-Oban and Ullapool-Stornoway among the routes cancelled entirely.
MV Loch Seaforth (1947) Stornoway mailboat operated by David MacBrayne from 1947 until 1972 MV Loch Seaforth (2014) , a Calmac ferry built in 2014 for the Stornoway – Ullapool route. List of ships with the same or similar names
In October 2016, Hebridean Isles provided a twice-nightly freight service on the Ullapool - Stornoway route whilst MV Loch Seaforth was in dry-dock. From 3 January to 21 January 2017, Hebridean Isles relieved on the Ardrossan - Brodick crossing alongside Isle of Arran whilst MV Caledonian Isles was away for her annual overhaul. She repeated ...
MacBrayne's, initially known as David Hutcheson & Co., began in 1851 as a private steamship operator when G. and J. Burns, operators of the largest of the Clyde fleets, decided to concentrate on coastal and transatlantic services and handed control of their river and Highland steamers to a new company in which Hutcheson, their manager of these services, became senior partner.
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