MV Kilbrannan at Largs, Scotland 1975
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This 1975 view shows MV Kilbrannan alongside at Largs, with the little bow-loading ferry berthed at the Cumbrae slip while people gather on the pier and small boats lie inside the harbour. In the foreground, a brown Renault 12 estate adds another strong period detail, helping to place the scene firmly in the mid-1970s.
Kilbrannan was one of Caledonian MacBrayne’s early “Small Island Class” ferries, built in 1972 as part of a new generation of compact bow-loading vessels for short west coast routes. By the time this photograph was taken, Caledonian MacBrayne itself was still a very new company, having been formed in 1973 through the merger of Caledonian Steam Packet Company and David MacBrayne. The ferry spent part of her career covering the Largs to Great Cumbrae service, where the route was then still being worked by the older small bow-loaders before the larger Isle of Cumbrae arrived in 1977. That makes this a good record of the crossing in its earlier form, before the route’s later modernisation.
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