MV Isle of Islay is a roll-on/roll-off vehicle and passenger ferry being constructed for use by Caledonian MacBrayne on routes on the west coast of Scotland. She is the first of four ferries being built in Turkey for Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited, and is expected to be delivered in 2024 for service on routes linking Islay with Kennacraig on the mainland.
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MVIsleofIslay is a roll-on/roll-off vehicle and passenger ferry being constructed for use by Caledonian MacBrayne on routes on the west coast of Scotland...
2025. The first vessel, MVIsleofIslay, is expected to be delivered in October 2024. A £115m contract for two further ferries of a very similar design...
by Caledonian MacBrayne on the Islay service from Kennacraig. MV Finlaggan was built in Gdańsk for the Kennacraig - Islay route. Launched on 30 June 2010...
of £24.5 million and operates the Islay service. The others are MVIsleof Lewis, MV Clansman, MV Hebrides, MV Caledonian Isles, MVIsleof Mull, MV Hebridean...
evening. MV Lord of the Isles took over this roster in 2003 following the introduction ofMV Coruisk at Mallaig. In 2003, Isleof Arran returned to Islay to...
is the main port. Islay is the fifth-largest Scottish island and the eighth-largest island of the British Isles, with a total area of almost 620 square...
Little Minch on the Uig triangle, she now serves Islay and Colonsay. MV Hebridean Isles (nicknamed "Heb Isles" amongst crew and passengers alike) was constructed...
vessel. On entry into service on 24 March 2001 she displaced MV Hebridean Isles to Islay. Her service speed is 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph), which...
next period of resilience operations beginning on 4 November 2023, releasing MV Caledonian Isles for berthing trials for services to Islay, Colonsay, Mull...
of Gigha separates Gigha and its attendant isles from mainland Kintyre. To the west and north west respectively, are the two large islands ofIslay and...
MV Sound of Gigha was a pioneering roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) ferry operating on the west coast of Scotland. She was launched as Isleof Gigha in May 1966...
to Islay, and then cross to Jura from Port Askaig on Islay by the MV Eilean Dhiura, a small vehicle ferry which is run by ASP Ships on behalf of Argyll...
MV Lord of the Isles is one of the larger Caledonian MacBrayne vessels and operates from Mallaig on the west of Scotland. Built in Port Glasgow, she is...
1406 and sustained an attack by John ofIslay, the Lord of the Isles in 1455. Originally a seat of the Clan Stewart of Menteith it passed to the Boyd family...
MV Caledonian Isles, usually referred to locally as the Caley Isles, is one of the largest ships operated by Caledonian MacBrayne (CalMac), which runs...
Belnahua. Staffa Tarbet Isle, Loch Lomond Texa (South ofIslay) Tiree Treshnish Islands including Lunga, Fladda Ulva (West of Mull) List of places in Argyll...
MV Eilean Dhiura is a vehicle ferry operating across the Sound ofIslay. Eilean Dhiura was commissioned by Argyll and Bute Council in 1998, to replace...
leader, John ofIslay, but a decade later he divorced her, and married the king's niece instead (in return for a substantial dowry). As part of the divorce...
were a series of such crosses arranged along the island, now only indicated by placenames. Upon the death of John ofIslay, Lord of the Isles, his son Donald...
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