| Naming - appropriate? Posted by grahame at 15:23, 3rd December 2025 |     |
From The National
The public have voted for the names of seven new loch-class ferries being built at Remontowa Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, as part of the Small Vessel Replacement Programme.
The vessels will serve key routes including Colintraive-Rhubodach, Lochaline-Fishnish, Tarbert-Portavadie, Iona-Fionnphort, Sconser-Raasay, Tobermory-Kilchoan and Tayinloan-Gigha.
More than 1000 votes were cast over three weeks, with members of the public choosing their seven favourite names from a list of 17 options provided by CMAL.
The new Scottish ferry names are:
MV Loch Awe – MV Loch Obha
MV Loch Etive – MV Loch Èite
MV Loch Katrine – MV Loch Ceiteirein
MV Loch Maree – MV Loch Ma-Ruibhe
MV Loch Morar – MV Loch Mòrair
MV Loch Rannoch – MV Loch Raineach
MV Loch Shiel – MV Loch Seile
The vessels will serve key routes including Colintraive-Rhubodach, Lochaline-Fishnish, Tarbert-Portavadie, Iona-Fionnphort, Sconser-Raasay, Tobermory-Kilchoan and Tayinloan-Gigha.
More than 1000 votes were cast over three weeks, with members of the public choosing their seven favourite names from a list of 17 options provided by CMAL.
The new Scottish ferry names are:
MV Loch Awe – MV Loch Obha
MV Loch Etive – MV Loch Èite
MV Loch Katrine – MV Loch Ceiteirein
MV Loch Maree – MV Loch Ma-Ruibhe
MV Loch Morar – MV Loch Mòrair
MV Loch Rannoch – MV Loch Raineach
MV Loch Shiel – MV Loch Seile
I know some of these lochs as fresh water ones - are the all fresh water?? And yet the ferries to be named are all to sail on salt water. Would not naming them after salt water lochs be more appropriate?
Imagine the express trains for Paddington to the South West being named after rivers in East Anglia.
