{"id":678967,"date":"2026-07-07T18:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/678967\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T18:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:24:15","slug":"mv-glen-sannox-deployed-on-lewis-route-for-hebcelt-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/678967\/","title":{"rendered":"MV Glen Sannox deployed on Lewis route for HebCelt festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The MV Glen Sannox is to be deployed to help passengers heading for a music festival later this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The \u00a3200m CalMac ferry will provide additional capacity on the Ullapool to Stornoway route for those heading for HebCelt from 15-18 July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is hoped the vessel, which will join MV Loch Seaforth on the crossing, can provide transport for up to 10,000 extra passengers over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ferry will be temporarily renamed the &#8220;HebCelt Special&#8221; when it begins crossings on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glen Sannox can carry an additional 852 passengers, 127 cars or 16 HGVs, added to the Loch Seaforth capacity of 700 passengers, 143 cars or 20 commercial vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both vessels will make twice daily crossings until Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The MV Glen Sannox is to be deployed to help passengers heading for a music festival later this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-678967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678967","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=678967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}