With capacity for up to 220 passengers each ferry will be powered by two IMO and EU emission compliant Cummins QSK19-M diesel engines producing 600 HP (447 kW) at 1,800 RPM. Built by the Ailsa yard at Troon for BR/s Southern Region for Isle of Wight service in 1959. The molded depth from the car deck is four meters while the ferries will operate with a draft of 2.5 meters. The harbour and village on Easdale Island with Ellenabeich on the Isle of Seil across Easdale Sound. The double-ended ro-ro ferries are each 49.95-meters overall with 13.5-meter beams extended over the sponsons to around 15 meters. Easdale lies about 200 metres off the Island of Seil which itself is connected to the mainland by the 200 year-old. Once interior details are finished and sea trails completed, the twin ferries will enter service on the company’s 2.2-nautical mile Firth of Clyde route between Gourock and Dunoon. The MV Sound of Soay and MV Sound of Seil continue the tradition of their owners, Western Ferries, of naming vessels after Scottish Sounds. RM WAPRX9 The Windstar Cruises cruise ship Star Breeze, and the Western Ferries car ferry MV Sound of Seil, off Gourock on the Firth of Clyde. The sister ferries are the first complete vessels built at the yard in 20 years. This is the view north from the Bridge over the Atlantic, although the Seil Sound actually feeds into the Firth of Lorn between the mainland and the Isle of. RMM8NPFD The Western Ferries vessels Sound of Seil (left) and Sound of Scarba (right), plying the route between Gourock and Dunoon on the Firth of Clyde. Cammell Laird Shipyard built a pair of 45-car ferries and recently launched them into the River Mersey at Birkenhead.
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