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Michael H. Standart
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Username: mstandart
Post Number: 12710
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Monday, April 30, 2007 - 5:53 am: | 
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From The Shipping Times:
quote:She was eagerly awaited and at last she arrives on the Clyde
Sister to the mv BUTE delivered last year, the latest new ferry built for Caledonian MacBrayne, the mv ARGYLE, arrived on a day soaked, not with April showers, but with April sunshine this morning, 29th April 2007.
Story at http://www.shippingtimes.co.uk/item521_argyle.htm
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
Equal Opportunity Curmudgeon
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Grant Carman
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Username: lksimcoe
Post Number: 104
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Monday, April 30, 2007 - 2:31 pm: |
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Bit ironic isn't it. Poland builds a ship to use in the area that was once the center for ship building.
Ironic and sad, but those days are gone. |
Michael H. Standart
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Username: mstandart
Post Number: 12727
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 1, 2007 - 5:17 am: |
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>>Ironic and sad, but those days are gone.<<
Quite, but that's just how business works. If you can't or won't do what it takes to compete, you'll be buried by the ones who are willing to go the distance!
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
Equal Opportunity Curmudgeon
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Michael H. Standart
Moderator
Username: mstandart
Post Number: 12765
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 2, 2007 - 5:57 pm: |
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From The Shipping Times:
Naming ceremony for latest ship to enter Calmac fleet
quote:The new mv ARGYLE will be christened at Rothesay on Friday
The latest addition to the Caledonian MacBrayne fleet, MV Argyle, the sister ship of MV Bute, will be named at Rothesay on Friday (May 4).
The new ship, which arrived on the Clyde on Sunday from the Gdansk shipyard where she was built, is currently undergoing final preparatory work prior to the naming. The formal naming ceremony will take place at Mid-day in Rothesay Bay by Tish Timms, wife of Peter Timms, Chairman of CalMac Ferries Ltd.
For the rest of the story, go to http://www.shippingtimes.co.uk/item529_argylenaming.htm
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
Equal Opportunity Curmudgeon
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