Eigg Flit Boat
Gaelic Name:
N/A
Current Status:
Type:
Callsign:
Wood MV
IMO:
MMSI:
Launched:
Acquired:
0
13/05/1966
Entered Service:
Disposed:
1978
Details
Ordered By:
Cost:
Registered:
Launched by:
Named after:
P&O
Island where she served as flit boat
Dimensions
Length:
32'
Draught:
Breadth:
3'5''
11'4''
Gross Tonnage:
20
Technical
Builders:
Harland & Wolff?
Yard No:
0
Engine Builders:
Diesel
Machinery:
Kelvin Diesel P4R
Speed:
0
Hoist & Lifts:
Remarks:
Eigg was a converted lifeboat from P&O Mooltan
Capacities
Passengers:
Cars:
Crew:
Lifeboats:
0
0
0
Facilities
Route Timeline
1923 - 1953: Lifeboat on RMS Mooltan
1954 - 19XX: Loch Morar Cruises
19XX - 1965: Cruises from Kyle of Lochalsh
1966 - 1974: Flit Boat at Eigg
1974 - 1978: Laid Up
Current, Last or Usual Route
History
Built in 1923 this small double bowed vessel was originally a lifeboat for RMS Mooltan. The P&O vessel was withdrawn in 1953 and the little lifeboat went to work for Bruce Watt on Loch Morar as part of the Kyles Nevis Tour under the name of Chieftain. Later she moved to Kyle of Lochalsh where she ran cruises to Eilean Donan Castle as A'Mhaighdean Mhara before being purchased by David MacBrayne for service as flit boat at Eigg, displacing Staffa to act as flit boat at Lochboisdale while the new pier there was being built. While in the MacBrayne fleet she was named Eigg. She was withdrawn from service in 1974 and scrapped in 1978.
Text thanks to John MacLeod
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