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Pentland Ferries was founded by its present managing director, Andrew Banks, in 1997. In October that year he purchased the Caledonian MacBrayne passenger and vehicle ferry Iona . Banks obtained a 99-year lease on the Gills Bay terminal, about 3 miles (5 kilometres) west of John o' Groats .
The agency reported that crew availability helped cut the number of missed sailings during the first nine months of 2024.
The Pentland Firth (Scottish Gaelic: An Caol Arcach, meaning the Orcadian Strait) is a strait which separates the Orkney Islands from Caithness in the north of Scotland. Despite the name, it is not a firth .
Pentland Ferries commissioned a larger catamaran, MV Alfred, to replace Pentalina on the St Margaret's Hope to Gill's Bay route, and the new vessel entered service on 1 November 2019. On 5 July 2022, Alfred ran aground on the island of Swona and Pentland Ferries confirmed that the port bulbous bow had sustained impact damage. [ 6 ]
Sailings between the Isle of Man and Lancashire resume with a delay after two days of disruption.
A lawmaker in his first term representing a ferry community has crafted a plan for a WSF 75 Commission to address system's shortcomings. Commuters and impact at center of plan to rally state's ...
Hamnavoe is the first ferry to have been specifically built for the Pentland Firth route, [citation needed] and was given the old Norse name for Stromness, meaning 'Home Port' or 'Safe Haven'. [3] The ship was originally ordered in October 2000 from Ferguson Shipbuilders at Port Glasgow but Fergusons withdrew from the contract only two months ...
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