Western Ferries delivers Dunoon dream: two new vehicle and passenger ferries
(Updated below – Russell welcomes news.) In a hugely morale boosting announcement, lifting spirits as the tourist season nears its end, Western Ferries has given Dunoon reason to look forward to a...
View ArticleWestern Ferries to have two new boats in service by 2013 Cowal Games
(3rd May Update below) Western Ferries has announced that it has appointed Birkenhead’s Cammell Laird shipbuilders as preferred bidder for the construction of two new ferries for its Gourock-Dunoon...
View ArticleWestern Ferries names its two new ferries today in ceremony at Cammell Laird
[16th August - Photo update below - official shot from Western Ferries] Western Ferries, operator of the successful vehicle and passenger ferry service between McInroy’s Point in Gourock and Hunter’s...
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 Article‘Young Lochinvar is come out of the west’– geared up to go in Tarbert
MV Lochinvar, the second of the two new diesel/electric hybrids commissioned by CMAL from Fergusons on the Clyde for the Calmac fleet, has been in Tarbert on Loch Fyne since Thursday, 24th...
View ArticleWhy has Scottish Government let Ferguson’s shipyard go down?
Ferguson’s shipyard in Port Glasgow has gone into administration, bringing the loss of 70 jobs with immediate effect.Administrators KPMG have said that this situation has been brought about by a lack...
View ArticleParty time as Community Contacts abolishes being alone at Christmas
As well as being an important story in its own right, this fits in the series of photographic contributions of moments in Argyll and of Argyllachs over the Christmas to Hogmanay period of 2014.In this...
View ArticleFurnace Quarry shipping stone again
This is time travelling is every way – Furnace Quarry, on the shore at the Loch Fyneside village, used to ship out over a million tonnes of crushed stone a year from timber pier, in boats loading up to...
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