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MV Glen Sannox
The latest addition to Caledonian MacBrayne's fleet - several years late and hundreds of millions of pounds overbudget and delivered in November 2024 - visited the Western Isles in the first few days of January 2025 for berthing and endurance trials to assess her possibilities as a future relief vessel on both the Ullapool to Stornoway and Uig Triangle route.
She berthed overnight at Stornoway on 3 January, and carried out berthing trials there as well as at Lochmaddy and Tarbert (Harris) before moving onto Ullapool for overnight berthing, and testing that linkspan the next morning before returning south. Trials at Uig (Skye) were not carried out due to further construction works there that the Highland Council call "port authority restrictions". She will likely visit there for trials another time in the future.
She is due to enter service on the Troon to Brodick service she was built to serve on 13 January, although Ardrossan still requires significant rebuilding to accommodate her.
I managed to photographer her at both Stornoway and Tarbert, as shown here. She certainly looks to be a very impressive vessel in spite of the controversy surrounding both her and Glen Rosa's procurement process. I look forward to my first sailing on her.
MV Glen Sannox
The latest addition to Caledonian MacBrayne's fleet - several years late and hundreds of millions of pounds overbudget and delivered in November 2024 - visited the Western Isles in the first few days of January 2025 for berthing and endurance trials to assess her possibilities as a future relief vessel on both the Ullapool to Stornoway and Uig Triangle route.
She berthed overnight at Stornoway on 3 January, and carried out berthing trials there as well as at Lochmaddy and Tarbert (Harris) before moving onto Ullapool for overnight berthing, and testing that linkspan the next morning before returning south. Trials at Uig (Skye) were not carried out due to further construction works there that the Highland Council call "port authority restrictions". She will likely visit there for trials another time in the future.
She is due to enter service on the Troon to Brodick service she was built to serve on 13 January, although Ardrossan still requires significant rebuilding to accommodate her.
I managed to photographer her at both Stornoway and Tarbert, as shown here. She certainly looks to be a very impressive vessel in spite of the controversy surrounding both her and Glen Rosa's procurement process. I look forward to my first sailing on her.