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18th November 2024, 11:09 PM
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Cal Mac Ferry
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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19th November 2024, 09:11 AM
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Re: Cal Mac Ferry
She is being for spares before going to the breakers.
vic
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19th November 2024, 09:39 AM
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Re: Cal Mac Ferry
och aye, as any ship owner does when sending a ship to the breakers if they have similar aged tonnage.
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19th November 2024, 11:57 AM
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Re: Cal Mac Ferry
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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20th November 2024, 10:24 AM
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Re: Cal Mac Ferry
Originally Posted by
John Cassels
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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20th November 2024, 01:09 PM
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Re: Cal Mac Ferry
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.
Rgds
J.A
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20th November 2024, 03:00 PM
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Re: Cal Mac Ferry
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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21st November 2024, 02:58 AM
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Re: Cal Mac Ferry
Hi John
All I can say is that the riveters of Britain may be getting tired it took so long.
Des
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