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Western Ferries (Clyde) LTD

Headquarters: Dunoon
Founded: 1968
Employees: —

Official website

Photo: Thomas Nugent · CC BY-SA 2.0 · file

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

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No published figure available

Container capacity

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Gross tonnage on record

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Summed over 0 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Western Ferries (Clyde) LTD is

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Western Ferries (Clyde) Ltd (also known as Western Ferries) is a private ferry company with its headquarters in Hunters Quay, Scotland. It currently operates on the Firth of Clyde running a year-round, high-frequency vehicle carrying service between Hunters Quay, near Dunoon, and McInroy's Point, on the outskirts of Gourock in Inverclyde.

Quoted from on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: transport
Legal form: —
Country of registration: United Kingdom
Headquarters: Dunoon
Formed in: —
Founded: 1968
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 55.9470, -4.9230

Ships on record here: 2
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 57.5 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1968
Newest vessel on record: 1969
Largest vessel by tonnage: —
Average tonnage: —
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 2 vessels this registry attributes to Western Ferries (Clyde) LTD. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Unclassified2

By flag state

United Kingdom2

By shipbuilder

Ferguson Marine1

Hatlø Verksted1

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	—	2
2018	—	2
2019	—	2
2020	—	2
2021	—	2
2022	—	2
2023	—	2
2024	—	2
2025	—	2
2026	—	2

Vessel records

Ships on record

2 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
MV Sound of Islay	6810926	Unclassified	United Kingdom	1968	—	—	43.4 m	Ferguson Marine
MV Sound of Jura	6920068	Unclassified	United Kingdom	1969	—	219	49.4 m	Hatlø Verksted

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 Western Ferries (Clyde) 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 2 vessels attributed to it here, Western Ferries (Clyde) LTD is the 341st 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 Western Ferries (Clyde) LTD ranks 26th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 260 vessels here. See every operator registered in United Kingdom.

Founded in 1968, Western Ferries (Clyde) LTD is 58 years old. This directory holds 112 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.