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Ferry suffered engine room fire and mooring winch issues
The 'Alfred', serving on the route Troon-Brodick, suffered a combination of a technical issue with the mooring winches and a small fire in the engine room on July 29. As a consequence, the following sailings had to be cancelled: Departure Troon - 12:05 p.m., 2:10 p.m. Departure Brodick - 4:00 p.m. Operations were resumed with the 6:10 p.m. sailing departing from the port Troon. Due to the ongoing engine repairs, the ferry was, however, operating with reduced thrusters. During periods of adverse weather, operations would thus to have been reduced and passage times longer. All sailings were liable to disruption or cancellation at short notice. On Aug 1 the sailings from Brodick at 08:00 a.m. and from Troon at 10:15 a.m. were cancelled. After the repairs to the thruster were completed, the regular service was resumed with the 4:00 p.m. departure from Brodick and the 6:10 p.m. departure from Troon.
Ferry suffered thruster issue
The ' Alfred', actually serving on the route Troon - Brodick, was operating with reduced thrusters due to a technical issue as of Jun 22. During periods of adverse weather, the operations would have to be reduced as a consequence.
Trials of Alfred aborted
The 'Alfred' returned to the Clyde on the afternoon of April 13, as she has been unable to complete trials that gave confidence she could operate consistently on Islay. She will return to service on Troon-Brodick later in the week. The 'Alfred' requires ramp modifications before she can return to service on the Troon-Brodick route. The earliest the contractor can carry out these works was April 16, meaning there may be no Troon-Brodick service on April 14-16. The 'Alfred' may be able to operate between Troon and the concrete berth at Brodick without modifications, and it was investigated whether any sort of service is available this way. Services should be able to resume normally from April 17. With the 'Alfred' returning, Calmac needed to redeploy the 'Glen Sannox' due to the network-wide issues, as the 'Loch Seaforth' has reported a damaged component on her clamshell bow door – that the operator was trying to urgently repair. The vessel operates a daily passenger service and overnight freight service between Ullapool-Stornoway, bringing in many supplies for the whole Western Isles. Though repairs continued, there was a need to ensure cover is on that run as quickly as possible and that capacity is in place to keep people, businesses and customers moving. Therefore, thr 'Glen Sannox' will head north on the morning of April 14 to pick up the Ullapool-Stornoway service from the morning of April 15. It may take about 16 hours to reach Stornoway, so it was needed her to leave first thing on April 14 to be available for service on April 15. The 'Caledonian Isles' continued to operate to timetable. During the past few days were tidal surges at Kennacraig where actual tides were, at times, over one metre different from predicted tides. In practice, this has meant that the vessel’s ramp cannot be relied upon to safely load/discharge customers in such conditions. Considering the above, it was reviewed whether the 'Glen Sannox' could operate on Islay once the 'Loch Seaforth' has returned, with the 'Alfred' remaining on the route Troon-Brodick. With the scale of the current challenge, and the limited deployment options for the 'Alfred', this may make most sense for protecting network-wide services. Following ramp modifications on April 16, the 'Alfred' was to operate an amended Troon-Brodick timetable from April 17.
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