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News EventWednesday, May 28, 2025 @ 1515 |
LACTA (2024> Bulk Carrier IMO 9502362 : 197m overall of Doun Kisen, Imabari, Japan / Diligent Holdings) |
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LACTA outbound and landing a Pilot off Custom House Quay, Greenock |
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Tug ANGLEGARTH was at the bow and tug SVITZER WARDEN was attached and tucked at the stern Pilot Cutter SKUA approaches to land one of the two Pilots at Estuary Control
Pilot Cutter SKUA comes alongside to take off a Pilot
The Pilot comes down the lowered gangway then transfers onto the Pilot ladder then climbs down to the waiting SKUA
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News EventThursday, May 29, 2025 @ 1000The date is correct but time is unknown and the time shown here is only our best estimate |
RAMANDA (2018 > Oil / Chemical Tanker IMO 9739812 : 150m overall of Alvtank Rederi Ab, Donso, Sweden) |
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RAMANDA discharging oil grades at Fuel Terminal, Rothesay Dock, Clydebank (River Clyde, Scotland) |
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News EventSaturday, May 31, 2025 @ 1000 |
RENFREW - YOKER FERRY (in 2025 : an un-named foot ferry vessel of Clyde Link, Glasgow) |
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Notice that the RENFREW - YOKER FERRY service on the River Clyde is terminated immediately |
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News EventSaturday, May 31, 2025 @ 1000 |
RENFREW - YOKER FERRY (in 2025 : an un-named foot ferry vessel of Clyde Link, Glasgow) |
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Historic Clyde RENFREW - YOKER FERRY service closes after new bridge opens |
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From BBC Scotland online news 31 May 2025Historic Clyde ferry service closes after new bridge opens
 00:41Watch: Renfrew Ferry departs the slipway The last regular ferry service across the River Clyde near Glasgow has closed just weeks after the opening of a new road bridge led to a drop in passengers. The Renfrew Ferry had operated for around 100 years, linking the town to Yoker on the north bank of the river. The boat carried pedestrians and cyclists across the Clyde for a small fare and operated seven days a week without public subsidy. The operators said it was ceasing with immediate effect after a steep fall in passenger numbers meant it was no longer viable. The opening of the new Renfrew Bridge earlier in May had led to speculation about the future of the service, which used a small aluminium boat to carry up to 12 people. While the ferry is closer to Renfrew town centre and the new swing bridge is sometimes closed to allow ships to pass, there were fears that passenger numbers would decrease.  00:24A ceremonial opening for the new Renfrew Bridge took place in early May In a statement on social media, operators Clydelink said this had proved to be the case, with passenger numbers last week falling to a level that was "no longer viable to keep running". The statement added: "We didn't get funding, but only passenger fares kept us going. A huge thank you from us to all of you who used the ferry. Some of you, every day. "Many became personal friends. Yes, the bridge is a real pain when it's unavailable, sometimes for hours, but that's just swinging bridge life, and those of us who live locally will get used to it. "So goodbye from all the Renfrew to Yoker staff. It is certainly the end of an era. We will see you around." Last of the Clyde's urban ferriesThe Renfrew Ferry was one of numerous ferry services that once operated across the Clyde, including at Finnieston, Govan, Partick, Whiteinch and Erskine. The boom in car use in the 1950s and 1960s saw the introduction of a car ferry at Renfrew which was hauled between the river banks by chains. But the opening of the Clyde Tunnel in 1963 affected usage, and it reverted to a passenger-only service again in 1984. Getty Images
The old Renfrew Ferry, which could carry cars, was later used as a restaurant and music venue near Glasgow's Kingston Bridge Strathclyde Partnership for Transport continued to provide a subsidised passenger ferry until 2010, when the crossing was taken over by private operator Clydelink. The new Renfrew Bridge opened on 9 May, the first new road bridge across the river since the Clyde Arc, nicknamed the "Squinty Bridge," in 2006. Further west, in the wider Firth of Clyde, ferry services continue to operate between Gourock and Dunoon, operated by Western Ferries and CalMac. |
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News EventTuesday, June 3, 2025 @ 0930 |
DEBRA ROSE (1993 > an award-winning floating fish and chip restaurant, McMonagles, on Forth & Clyde Canal at Clydebank) |
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DEBRA ROSE is an award-winning floating fish and chip restaurant, McMonagles, at Clydebank |
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Contributed by Robert McManus Two pictures taken this morning and here is a link to DEBRA ROSE https://www.campbeltown-shipyard.uk/debra-rose-fish-and-chips-on-the-canal/
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News EventThursday, June 5, 2025 @ 1000 |
ISLE OF ISLAY (2025 > Ro-ro ferry of Caledonian MacBrayne, Gourock, Scotland) |
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New Caledonian MacBrayne ferry iSLE OF ISLAY completes her first builders trials in Turkey |
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From BBC Scotland online news 5 June 2025Turkish-built CalMac ferry completes first sea trials
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MV Isle of Islay spent eight days on sea trials off the Turkish coast
The first CalMac ferry being built by a shipyard in Turkey has completed its initial set of sea trials. MV Isle of Islay is one of four new ferries being built for Scotland's west coast routes by the Cemre shipyard at Yalova. The contract was awarded in March 2022 with delivery expected last October but after a series of delays it is now likely to enter service later this year. CalMac has extended the charter of the catamaran Alfred for a further five months to provide extra capacity while it awaits the arrival of new vessels. Representatives from CalMac, ferries procurement body CMAL and UK regulators were present as MV Isle of Islay underwent eight days of technical trials off the Turkish coast. CMAL said it now hoped to provide an updated delivery date once a second set of sea trials have been conducted during the summer. Director of vessels Jim Anderson added: "There is a great feeling of momentum following the successful completion of this first phase of sea trials." CMAL has previously said the delays in construction are partly due to the impact of the 2023 Turkish earthquake and global supply chain problems. The new "Islay-class" ferries have conventional diesel engines, used to generate electricity for electric motors, and also large batteries which can provide power when manoeuvring in harbour. They will be the first large vessels in the CalMac fleet fitted with a Voith Schneider propulsion system, which uses vertical spinning blades instead of a traditional propeller and rudder. The next stage of construction will involve installing the batteries and testing how the ships perform in harbour. When will CalMac's ferry shortage ease?CalMac has warned it faces another difficult summer due a shortage of vessels and potential breakdowns of its ageing fleet. MV Glen Sannox, built by the Ferguson shipyard, entered service in January on the Arran route but other large vessels have been out of action, and one vessel, MV Hebridean Isles, was retired in November. The situation should start to ease next week when the old Arran ferry MV Caledonian Isles returns to service after 16 months of repairs. The 32-year-old ship is expected back from 12 June, providing the first Arran sailings out of Ardrossan since January because Glen Sannox is too large to fit and has to sail from Troon instead. CalMac has also extended the charter for MV Alfred from Pentland Ferries until October at a cost believed to be around a million pounds a month. The catamaran has been on charter now since the spring of 2023, meaning the charter fees are far in excess of the £14m which the vessel cost to build. Christopher Brindle The catamaran Alfred has been chartered by CalMac since early 2023 MV Isle of Mull is currently in dry dock for the fitting of a replacement evacuation chute system after a fault left it restricted to carrying just 45 passengers. While no date for the arrival of the new ferry MV Isle of Islay has been announced, it should be in service later this year, with three similar vessels following on at six monthly intervals. MV Glen Rosa, sister ship of MV Glen Sannox, is still being fitted out at the Ferguson shipyard in Port Glasgow. The two ships are larger and have more complex dual-fuel gas propulsion systems, but Glen Rosa is now expected to be delivered between April and June next year. |
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News EventSunday, June 8, 2025 @ 0640 |
NIEUW STATENDAM (2018 > Pinnacle-class cruise ship IMO 9767106 : 299.75 m (983 ft 5 in) overall of Holland America Line / a division of Carnival Corporation) |
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NIEUW STATENDAM passing Dunoon (Firth of Clyde, Scotland, UK) inbound for Greenock |
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News EventSunday, June 8, 2025 @ 0741 |
CHRISTINA (2020 > Container ship IMO 9429211 : 140.7m overall of Langh Ship Oy Ab - Piikkio, Finland) |
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CHRISTINA passing Dunoon (Firth of Clyde) inbound for the Container Terminal at Greenock |
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News EventSunday, June 8, 2025 @ 1011 |
LOCH PORTAIN (2003- Ro-ro passenger ferry 50m overall of Caledonian MacBrayne, Gourock) |
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Caledonian MacBrayne's LOCH PORTAIN leaves Garvel Drydock for Gourock Pier then Largs Pier |
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With the Garvel Dry-dock gates now open LOCH PORTAIN leaves the dry-dock for the adjacent Dales Marine Services Yard at James Watt Dock, Greenock.
LOCH PORTAIN enters James Watt Dock and then berths at the Dales Marine Services wall
After only a few minutes LOCH PORTAIN leaves the wall at Dales and moves through the entrance to James Watt Dock to enter the Firth of Clyde
Now clear of the James Watt Dock Basin LOCH PORTAIN can now taste the ecstasy of clear water and heads for Gourock Pier where she will spend a short time and then head southward down the coast to the town of Largs
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News EventThursday, June 12, 2025 @ 1900 |
CALEDONIAN ISLES (1993- Passenger and vehicle ferry 308 feet 94m long of Caledonian MacBrayne, Gourock) |
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CALEDONIAN ISLES is delayed from returning to the Ardrossan to Brodick service |
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From BBC Online News 12 June 2025Last-minute hitch delays ferry's return after 18-month repairsChristopher Brindle
Caledonian Isles, leaving dry dock in Greenock after months of repair work The planned return to service of a CalMac ferry after 18 months of repairs has been delayed by a last-minute technical hitch. MV Caledonian Isles has been unable to carry passengers since January 2024 due to a series of faults that have cost nearly £11m to fix. The 32-year-old ship had been due to resume sailings from Ardrossan to Arran on Friday morning but sea trials revealed a new problem with the ship's gearbox. CalMac said it would now be Tuesday at the earliest before Caledonian Isles could return but sailings from Troon would still be available in the meantime. MV Caledonian Isles was initially taken out of service in January last year after routine annual maintenance revealed serious steel corrosion. Months of major repair work took place in dry dock at Cammell Laird shipyard in Merseyside, requiring removal of the ship's engines. Upon the ship's return to Scotland in September, a gearbox and propeller fault were detected, and further investigation at Dale's Marine in Greenock revealed the rear of the ship was twisted.
A spokesperson for CalMac said the latest gearbox fault was believed to be relatively minor and the crew were working to address it, but further sea trials would be required before the ship returns to service. "Whilst this will be disappointing news, a two-vessel service from Troon will remain in place for now to ensure Arran has a reliable service with appropriate capacity," they said. "We carry out sea trials to identify and address issues and that is what we've done here. "It's been a long road to get to this point with MV Caledonian Isles and, in the context of where we've been, we are still confident we will see her carrying passengers between Ardrossan and Brodick imminently." Services from Troon, about 15 miles further south on the Ayrshire coast, will be provided by the new ferry MV Glen Sannox and the chartered catamaran Alfred. |
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News EventSunday, June 15, 2025 @ 0600The date is correct but time is unknown and the time shown here is only our best estimate |
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Five Ferry Charity Cycle Challenge around the Firth of Clyde |
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News EventSunday, June 15, 2025 @ 1517 |
SOUND OF SHUNA (2003- Roro ferry 49.95m of Western Ferries, Hunters Quay, Scotland) |
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Search after person goes overboard from Clyde ferry |
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From BBC Scotland online news 15 June 2025Search after person goes overboard from Clyde ferry
CalMac vessel MV Ali Cat was sent to join the search efforts A person has gone overboard from a ferry in the Firth of Clyde. Coastguard crews, including the service's helicopter, and lifeboat personnel have launched a search following the incident between Dunoon and Gourock on Sunday afternoon. CalMac and Western Ferries said sailings on the route had been suspended until further notice. Police Scotland and the Scottish Ambulance Service are also in attendance. The Western Ferries vessel, from which the person went overboard, is a car and passenger service. CalMac said its vessel the MV Ali Cat was assisting coastguard crews with the search. The company initially said its sailings were due to resume at 15:20, but that has now been pushed back indefinitely. Western Ferries has also cancelled all of its sailings. Passengers have been warned to check the latest advice before departing on their journeys. |
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ALICAT (2019- Passenger ferry 19m long of Caledonian MacBrayne, Gourock) |
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Caledonian MacBrayne's ALICAT searches for a person overboard from another Clyde ferry |
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From BBC Scotland online news 15 June 2025Search after person goes overboard from Clyde ferry
CalMac vessel MV Ali Cat was sent to join the search efforts A person has gone overboard from a ferry in the Firth of Clyde. Coastguard crews, including the service's helicopter, and lifeboat personnel have launched a search following the incident between Dunoon and Gourock on Sunday afternoon. CalMac and Western Ferries said sailings on the route had been suspended until further notice. Police Scotland and the Scottish Ambulance Service are also in attendance. The Western Ferries vessel, from which the person went overboard, is a car and passenger service. CalMac said its vessel the MV Ali Cat was assisting coastguard crews with the search. The company initially said its sailings were due to resume at 15:20, but that has now been pushed back indefinitely. Western Ferries has also cancelled all of its sailings. Passengers have been warned to check the latest advice before departing on their journeys. |
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News EventSunday, June 15, 2025 @ 2030 |
SOUND OF SHUNA (2003- Roro ferry 49.95m of Western Ferries, Hunters Quay, Scotland) |
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Coastguard calls off search after person goes overboard from Clyde ferry SOUND OF SHUNA |
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From BBC Scotland Online News 16 June 2025Search called off after person goes overboard from Clyde ferry
CalMac vessel MV Ali Cat joined the search efforts Coastguard teams have called off a search the Firth of Clyde after a person fell overboard from a ferry. HM coastguard crews, a helicopter, lifeboats and several private vessels joined the operation between Dunoon and Gourock on Sunday afternoon. The person was reported overboard from Western Ferries' Sound of Shuna at about 12:30. The search was called off at about 20:30. Western Ferries and CalMac suspended sailings on the route, with the CalMac vessel MV Ali Cat also assisting in the search. Police Scotland and the Scottish Ambulance Service were in attendance. Coastguard members searched on foot along the Gourock waterfront, while police officers were posted at the nearby ferry terminal. |
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News EventMonday, June 16, 2025 @ 0700 |
CAPTAYANNIS (1963-1974 General cargo ship 418 feet long of Paleocrassas Brothers, Piraeus : sank 1974) |
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Wreck of CAPTAYANNIS "the Sugar Boat" off Greenock is set to sink from view |
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From BBC Scotland Online News 16 June 2025'Sugar boat' shipwreck set to sink from view
The sugar boat's decline has accelerated since the winter storms It has been a landmark in the River Clyde for more than 50 years. But now the famous "sugar boat" shipwreck between Helensburgh and Greenock is nearing a watery grave, according to local experts. Harsh weather throughout the winter, including Storm Éowyn, has accelerated the vessel's decline. Jason Coles, a tour operator specialising in wrecks and dives, told BBC Scotland News that while he previously believed it would take around 30 years before the ship disappeared, he now estimates it will be gone in half that time - at most.
The MV Captayannis was struck by strong winds on 27 January 1974, when moored on the Clyde while waiting to waiting to unload raw east African sugar for the Tate & Lyle refinery in Greenock. As the ship drifted, captain Theodorakis Ionnis hoped to reach Gare Loch and find shelter there. However the ship drifted into the anchor chains of a BP tanker called British Light - an incident which ripped a hole in the hull of the Captayannis below the waterline. Rescuers set out to help, and the Captayannis crew were able to escape onto the MV Rover passenger launch - but in the aftermath the ship itself keeled over, where it has remained since.
The sugar boat has been on the Clyde since 1974 In the years since the accident the ship has become a popular tourist attraction, letting visitors see a real-life shipwreck up close, without having to dive into the depths. It has also become a home for sea birds and fish, but when Jason Coles travelled to see the boat earlier this year, he found it eerily quiet. "Everything had been stripped away," he explains. "It didn't look like the sugar boat - there wasn't a bird to be seen, there wasn't even any fish guts lying on it, and a few of the layers of hull had been stripped away as well, showing signs of fracture. "The weather was really harsh [over winter], and it looks like the waves have come over the top of the hull and landed on the wreck. It's made such an indentation, it's incredible – the weight of all that water has buckled the main decks." The sugar boat's damageMr Coles estimated a crack in the bottom of the hull has quadrupled, while the majority of the hull's starboard side has collapsed inwards and buckled. Other parts of the boat have been torn open from stormy weather. Mr Coles suspects the added damage will make the boat more vulnerable to future bad weather, creating a cycle that will only end when the Captayannis finally sinks for good. He believes that will be a sad sight, as the boat is a local fixture - to the extent a Helensburgh hotel and restaurant are named after it. It is also a link to the past for the west of Scotland as a whole. Mr Coles, who has run his company Wreckspeditions from Dunoon since 2018, said: "The Clyde and Glasgow were the biggest powerhouses in shipbuilding, and I think the sugar industry stopped only a few years after the sinking so it's almost a reminder of when that industry stopped in the Clyde. "She's done well to last 50 years, really – everyone thinks of the Clyde as being very sheltered but we do get rough water here and some strong winds. "
The Captayannis has become a tourist attraction in the years it has been in the Clyde While the boat was inevitably going to sink eventually, Mr Coles believes the timeline has been sped up drastically. He said: "The difference in the past several months was quite stark. The storms and the weather are becoming more variable and more extreme. "I used to say it'd be there for another 20 or 30 years, but after seeing that there's no chance it'll be that long. You're probably talking half of that time, at most." Ownership of the boat has been disputed since the accident, which is partly why it was never salvaged. Mr Coles believes nothing more can be done for the ship. He said: "I don't think anything can be done, you can't really protect her. It's just the nature of the beast, the more she gets hit. "I'd love it to be there forever but she will go down at some point - we just have to keep an eye on her and enjoy her while we can." |
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