Date: 29/10/2022

Ministers have been accused of ignoring proposals for a Clyde shipbuilding revolution to solve Scotland's ferry crisis by forging ahead with alternative plans to procure two more ferries.

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An October 2022 aerial view from Newark Castle Park of Ferguson's Newark Shipyard from the east. The new 'Glen Sannox' is to the right at the fitting out quay and her sistership, the as yet unnamed second vessel, is on the slip. Newark Castle is to the bottom left and the former Gourock Ropeworks, now flats, are beyond the yard on the left by the railway. The shipyard was once railway served, a short branch leaving the Greenock railway to run to Port Glasgow's harbour (now filled in).
Location: Newark Shipyard
Company: Ferguson Marine (Port Glasgow) Limited
18/10/2022 Ewan Crawford

'Glen Sannox', Calmac's new ferry for the Ardrossan to Brodick route was launched from Ferguson's shipyard at Port Glasgow on a dreich 21st November 2017.
Location: Newark Shipyard
Company: Ferguson Marine Engineering
21/11/2017 Malcolm Chattwood

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