LOCH DUNVEGAN and ISLE OF MULL

I am grateful to a correspondent for sending these two images, showing two of CalMac's ferry fleet heading into the Garvel Drydock this morning for their annual surveys. The upper view shows LOCH DUNVEGAN, normally employed on the Colintraive-Rhubodach service across the Kyles of Bute, approaching the dock entrance. In the background, ISLE OF MULL can be seen while just to the left of her, the containership HELGALAND makes her approach to Greenock Ocean Terminal.

Following LOCH DUNVEGAN into the drydock, ISLE OF MULL had just arrived from Oban, having passed McInroy's Point in the darkness and called briefly at Gourock pier, where she berthed at the linkspan to land cars belonging to her crew.