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Air medevac from PS Waverley at Colonsay
Yesterday evening (23rd April 2011) the Paddle Steamer Waverley was scheduled to call at Colonsay on her way to Oban.Sometime before she was due, the news leaked out that a passenger had been taken ill...
View ArticleCouncil contributes to PS Waverley refit but ignores chance to help Campbeltown
At the meeting today of Argyll and Bute Council’s Executive Committee, the decision was taken to offer a one-off grant of £15,000 towards the £350,000 refit costs of the fabled paddle steamer,...
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Job losses of established staff follow SPT’s change of operator of Kilcreggan...
On 20th January 2012 Strathclyde Passenger Transport reported to its committee on a prolonged tendering process for the passenger ferry route operated by Clyde Marine between Kilcreggan and Gourock,...
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PS Comet Bicentenary for Helensburgh and Port Glasgow
Two and a half years since the planning for this event began, the Bicentenary of the Paddlesteamer Comet, designed by Helensburgh’s Henry Bell, is on the slipway and counting down.As the organisers...
View ArticleCouncil funds 2014 Cowal Highland Gathering – can it do more?
Argyll and Bute Council has agreed to give Dunoon’s Cowal Highland Gathering £68,205 for the 2014 event – the sum set out in its ongoing funding agreement with the organisers.The council has come to...
View ArticleRYA wrangle over Waverley loss to Commonwealth Games flotilla loses sight of...
PS Waverley was announced as part of the Commonwealth Flotilla to leave Greenock and sail upriver to Glasgow, on 26th July, the fourth day of the 2014 Commonwealth Games. This conjured a spectacular...
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The view from Lochinvar: party of the century from the Commonwealth Flotilla
Yesterday, 26th July 2014, was about a great river – the Clyde; about boating and commercial maritime business; and about people – so many people. CalMac’s newest ferry, MV Lochinvar, led the...
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