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The long way up Loch Lomond is to get a new lethaviathan when she finally arrives avter her mommoth journey.

The Silver Dolphin has spent much of the summer travelling from the river Thames in London to her new home in Scotland.

The boat left the Thames the beginning of January, it then was stuck at Lowestoft for a while due to the bad weather, it then set sail and was stuck at Hartlepool. she then sailed to Inverness, and then down the Caledonian Canal and then into Crinan Canal. However the Crinan Canal was closed untill the end of March. So she came out at Corpach (Fort William) and then sailled down past Oban, Scarba, Kerrera, Lismore, Corryveckan, round the Mull of Kintyre, Campbeltown, Arran, Bute, Dunoon and up the Clyde to Denny's Shipyard - Dumbarton. (where the Cutty Sark was built).

She was then taken out of the water and along the A82 (the main dual carriage way was closed off as she had to be taken on the opposite side of the carriage way on the way to Balloch via Alexandria.

This will be the last chance to get a larger passenger boat out from the Clyde to Loch Lomond from this shipyard as it will shortly be turning into a Turnberry Housing Estate!

The Silver Dolphin is 75 feet and will be the heaviest tonnage (90 gross tons) of ship when she arrives and the largest passenger boat and the largest passenger boat. Once here she will be going through a major refit. Owners Sweeney's have been boat hiring for approximately 125 years on Loch Lomond.

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• By : Rob Allanson
• In : Scotland News
• Issue : 51
• Page : 8
• Words : 1,084