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The Sound of Seil was a double-ended ferry operated by the Scottish shipping company Western Ferries (Clyde). The ferry was built in 1959 for the British Railways Board in service to the Isle of Wight .
history
The ferry was built under hull number 505 at the Ailsa Shipbuilding Co. in Troon for the British Railways Board. She was put into service on September 21, 1959 as Freshwater with her home port Southampton on the route between Lymington and Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight and replaced a predecessor ship of the same name.
On January 1, 1979, the British Railways Board outsourced ferry traffic to the Isle of Wight in its subsidiary Sealink UK. The ferry, now operated by Sealink UK, was briefly used in January 1979 and again in 1980 as a replacement ship on the Humber between Hull and New Holland. In 1982 she served temporarily as a replacement ship between Portsmouth and Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
In 1984 the ferry was sold to Pounds Marine Shipping and laid up in Southampton . In 1985 it went to Western Ferries (Clyde). Renamed the Sound of Seil after the Seil Sound, a strait between the Isle of Seil and the Scottish mainland and registered in Glasgow , the ferry was operated by Western Ferries (Clyde) on the Firth of Clyde between Dunoon and Gourock from June 1986 .
At the end of 1987 the ferry was chartered for two weeks to the Scott Lithgow shipyard , which transported workers to the Ocean Alliance drilling platform built by the shipyard in the Clyde estuary .
The ferry was taken out of service by Western Ferries (Clyde) in July 1995 and sold in July 1996 to the demolition company S. Evans & Sons, who wanted to convert the ferry into a pontoon . The plan was ultimately not implemented and the ferry was finally partially scrapped by Garston Ship Breakers in 1997. Since the demolition yard ceased operations before the work was finished, remnants of the hull remained on the banks of the River Mersey .
Technical data and equipment
The ferry has two two-stroke - eight-cylinder - diesel engines of the manufacturer Crossley , each with 320 hp power driven. The engines acted on two Voith-Schneider propellers , which were located diagonally offset at both ends of the ferry.
The ferry had a continuous vehicle deck with foldable ramps at both ends. 26 cars could be carried on the vehicle deck. There were superstructures on both sides of the ferry . On the main deck, lounges for the passengers and storage rooms were housed here. On the deck above, which partly extended beyond the vehicle deck, there was seating for the passengers on an open deck. In the midship area there was a deck connecting the two side deck structures, on which the wheelhouse was housed in the middle .
Other rooms were on the deck below the vehicle deck. In addition to the engine room and various other technical rooms, there were also other lounges for passengers, a small self-service restaurant and the crew mess.
Web links
- GA map (JPG, 234 kB)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d e f Freshwater , Scottish Built Ships - The History of Shipbuilding in Scotland, Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved July 13, 2020.
- ↑ a b c d MV Freshwater - Past and Present , Dover Ferry Photos. Retrieved July 13, 2020.
- ^ History , Western Ferries (Clyde). Retrieved July 13, 2020.
- ^ Graeme Esson: The rise and fall of the Clyde , BBC News , Nov. 25, 2004. Retrieved July 13, 2020.
- ↑ Sound of Seil - IMO 5121110 , ShipSpotting.com. Retrieved July 13, 2020.