{"id":469443,"date":"2026-03-11T10:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469443\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T10:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:27:08","slug":"glen-sannox-ferry-needs-3-2m-repairs-after-one-year-in-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469443\/","title":{"rendered":"Glen Sannox ferry needs \u00a33.2m repairs after one year in service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glen Sannox was briefly taken out of service last year for the crack on a weld seam to be repaired, and was again off duty in November for annual maintenance at Cammell Laird&#8217;s yard on Merseyside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That work was extended to include steel strengthening <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c99jx1lgp9ko\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to tackle the vibration issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The committee heard that the problem related to &#8220;cavitation&#8221; &#8211; when bubbles detach from a propellor and pop, causing damaging vibrations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thomson said that the source of the crack was &#8220;vibration through the hull caused when the ship went astern.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Similar work would be needed on its sister ship, the Glen Rosa, he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The issue is understood to run right back to the ferries&#8217; controversial design, which was intended to allow them to ply both the Arran route and the higher-speed &#8216;Uig triangle&#8217;, which links Skye to North Uist and Harris in the Outer Hebrides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glen Sannox was the first UK ferry capable of running on the dual fuels of liquified natural gas (LNG) and marine gas oil (MGO), a low-sulphur type of diesel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glen Sannox was briefly taken out of service last year for the crack on a weld seam to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-469443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}