MV Glen Sannox (2017)

Glen Sannox after launching at Port Glasgow
History
Name: Glen Sannox[1]
Namesake: MV Glen Sannox (1957) and Glen Sannox on the Isle of Arran.
Operator: Caledonian MacBrayne
Port of registry: Glasgow
Route: Ardrossan - Brodick
Builder: FMEL, Port Glasgow, UK
Cost: £97m contract for 2 ferries
Yard number: 801
Laid down: 17 February 2017
Launched: 21 November 2017
Christened: by Nicola Sturgeon
Status: Under construction
General characteristics
Tonnage: 1,273 DWT[2]
Length: 102.4 m (335 ft 11 in)[2]
Beam: 17 m (55 ft 9 in)[2]
Draught: 3.4 m (11 ft 2 in)[2]
Installed power: 2 × Wärtsilä 34DF diesels.[3]
Propulsion:
Speed: 14.5 kn (26.85 km/h)[2]
Capacity: 1000 passengers, 127 cars or 16 HGVs[1]

MV Glen Sannox is a dual-fuel car and passenger ferry for Caledonian MacBrayne, currently under construction at Ferguson Marine Engineering in Port Glasgow on the Clyde. The ship is expected to be in service towards the end of 2018.

History

MV Glen Sannox is to be the first of two Scottish ferries capable of operating on either marine diesel oil or liquefied natural gas (LNG), with benefits of a marked reduction in carbon dioxide, sulphur and nitrous oxide emissions.[1] Her name was chosen from a short list by public ballot and recalls an earlier Arran ferry.[4]

The steel was cut on 7th April 2016.

Glen Sannox was launched on 21 November 2017 by the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.[5]

Service

MV Glen Sannox was expected to enter service in mid-2018, however construction delays leading up to her launch mean that Glen Sannox is due to begin operation from Ardrossan to the Isle of Arran in summer 2019.[6][7] MV Caledonian Isles will then become the second ferry on the Ardrossan-Brodick and the Ardrossan-Campbeltown ferry crossings.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited- announces Scottish shipbuilder as preferred tenderer for two large ferries contract". CMAL. 31 August 2015. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Presentation to Arran ferry Committee" (PPT). CMAL. 10 April 2017. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "Calmac picks Wärtsilä for two LNG ferries". Retrieved 23 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "CMAL announces name of first LNG ferry". CMAL. 1 June 2017. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "IN Pictures -- Launch Of Ferry Glen Sannox At Port Glasgow". Inverclyde Now. 21 November 2017. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  6. ↑ "Ferry MV Glen Sannox ready for launch at Port Glasgow yard". Greenock Telegraph. 19 November 2017. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  7. ↑ "New Arran Ferry set to launch next June - government confirms". Ardrossan Herald. 15 August 2018. Retrieved 15 August 2018.


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