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The ferry carries up to 12 passengers and one car. [4] [5]There are sailings three times a week from Grutness Pier near Sumburgh Head in summer and one per week in winter. In the summer only, there are fortnightly sailings to Lerwick, the capital of Shetland.
Shetland Islands Council Ferries (often named SIC Ferries) is a company operating inter-island ferry services in Shetland, a subarctic archipelago off the northeast coast of Scotland. [1] The company operates services across 10 of the Shetland islands.
NorthLink Ferries (also referred to as Serco NorthLink Ferries [1]) is an operator of passenger and vehicle ferries, as well as ferry services, between mainland Scotland and the Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland. Since July 2012, it has been operated by international services company Serco.
The Leirna operates the Bressay Ferry Service linking Lerwick on the Shetland Mainland to Maryfield, Bressay. She was purpose-built for this route. She was purpose-built for this route. In her whole career she hasn't been outside the Bressay Sound other than to go south for her annual docking, which takes place in Fraserburgh every year.
There is no police station on the island; the main station is Lerwick and a section station is located in the village of Brae. [47] Passenger service to the island is provided by SIC Ferries on the vessel Good Shepherd IV [48] or by a nine-seat passenger aeroplane from Tingwall Airport near Lerwick, operated by regional carrier Directflight. [49]
MV Hrossey is a NorthLink Ferries vehicle and passenger ferry based in Aberdeen. Along with her sister ship, the MV Hjaltland , she operates a daily ferry service between mainland Scotland and the northern archipelagos of Orkney and Shetland .
The timetable gives a few hours in Lerwick to allow the Skerries residents time ashore in the town before returning home the same day. She cannot lie at the linkspan for the whole time in Lerwick since it is the same linkspan that the Bressay ferry uses.
The former Shetland – Orkney ferry Earl of Zetland, now a floating restaurant. ROF Beaver (1975–87) Earl of Zetland (1877–1946) Earl of Zetland (1939–75) Highlander (1939–40) renamed St. Catherine II 1940; P&O ferry St Clair (V) at Lerwick, 1994. This was the Aberdeen – Lerwick ferry, built in Bremerhaven in 1971 to carry 406 ...