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David MacBrayne Ltd

Headquarters: United Kingdom
Founded: 2006
Employees: —

Official website

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Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

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Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

3,913

Summed over 3 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What David MacBrayne Ltd is

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David MacBrayne is a limited company owned by the Scottish Government. Formed in 1851 as the private shipping company David Hutcheson & Co. with three partners, David Hutcheson, Alexander Hutcheson and David MacBrayne, it passed in 1878 to David MacBrayne.
It became the main carrier for freight and passengers in the Hebrides, with a co-ordinated network of shipping, road haulage and bus operations. In 1973, it was merged with Caledonian Steam Packet Company as state-owned Caledonian MacBrayne. Since 2006 it has been the holding company for ferry operators CalMac Ferries Ltd (operating as Caledonian MacBrayne) and Argyll Ferries, and is classified as an executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: —
Legal form: —
Country of registration: United Kingdom
Headquarters: —
Formed in: —
Founded: 2006
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: —

Ships on record here: 3
Vessel types operated: 2
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 76.7 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1929
Newest vessel on record: 1964
Largest vessel by tonnage: 2,112
Average tonnage: 1,304
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 3 vessels this registry attributes to David MacBrayne Ltd. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Unclassified2

Cruise ship1

By flag state

United Kingdom2

By shipbuilder

Hall, Russell & Company1

Harland and Wolff1

William Denny and Brothers1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	3
2018	—	3
2019	—	3
2020	—	3
2021	—	3
2022	—	3
2023	—	3
2024	—	3
2025	—	3
2026	—	3

Vessel records

Ships on record

3 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
MV Hebridean Princess	6409351	Cruise ship	United Kingdom	1964	2,112	—	71.6 m	Hall, Russell & Company
MV Claymore	5075799	Unclassified	—	1955	1,024	—	70.2 m	William Denny and Brothers
SS Lochness	5244833	Unclassified	United Kingdom	1929	777	—	—	Harland and Wolff

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How David MacBrayne Ltd compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 3 vessels attributed to it here, David MacBrayne Ltd is the 262nd largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

United Kingdom is the country of registration for 97 commercial operators in this directory, among which David MacBrayne Ltd ranks 18th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 260 vessels here. See every operator registered in United Kingdom.

Founded in 2006, David MacBrayne Ltd is 20 years old. This directory holds 119 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.