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    Cal Mac ferry Hebridean Isles is soon to be heading for the breakers after 39 years service.
    If ships could talk what atale the old girl could tell.




    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/...0um7NcpaKCGoKQ
    Last edited by James Curry; 18th November 2024 at 11:18 PM.

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    She is being for spares before going to the breakers.
    vic
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    och aye, as any ship owner does when sending a ship to the breakers if they have similar aged tonnage.

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    We were over last month for a family visit and spent 4 days at Brodick . Ardrossan to Brodick and back was with the Hebridean Isle but we had no idea qwe were sailing
    on a legend .

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    Quote Originally Posted by John Cassels View Post
    We were over last month for a family visit and spent 4 days at Brodick . Ardrossan to Brodick and back was with the Hebridean Isle but we had no idea qwe were sailing
    on a legend .
    They have another vessel named just HEBRIDES, completed on time in 2001 at Fergusons. I was on her doing some training in the yard Feb 01.

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    See the new glan rannox ferry, now 9? Years late, has been approved for carrying passengers, still undergoing crew training and assimilation before it can actually enter service.
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    John, before she enters service and after completing crew and berthing trials, she is going into dry dock for a bum scrub.
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    Hi John
    All I can say is that the riveters of Britain may be getting tired it took so long.
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