MV Clyde Clipper
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{{Infobox ship image | Ship image=File:1100703 Clyde Clipper.jpg | Ship caption=Clyde Clipper arriving at Gourock, on the Argyll Ferries service from Dunoon }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country= United Kingdom | Ship flag= {{Shipboxflag|United Kingdom|civil}} | Ship name= Clyde Clipper | Ship namesake= | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Abels Shipbuilders | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched=2009 | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed= | Ship acquired= | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= |Ship identification=*{{MMSI Number|235068375}}
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| Ship speed= {{Convert|12.7|kn|lk=in}} | Ship range= | Ship endurance= | Ship boats= | Ship capacity=250 passengers | Ship crew= | Ship sensors= | Ship notes= }} |
MV Clyde Clipper is a cruise boat, a purpose built catamaran with a capacity of around 250 passengers and facilities for weddings, functions and corporate hospitality, including bar and catering facilities.{{cite web |url=http://www.clydecruises.com/fleet/the-clipper.aspx |title=The Clipper |publisher=Clyde Cruises Glasgow |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110830192459/http://www.clydecruises.com/fleet/the-clipper.aspx |archivedate=2011-08-30 }} She was built by Abels Shipbuilders of Bristol in 2009.
From 30 June 2011 it was leased by Argyll Ferries Ltd as an interim ferry on the Gourock-Dunoon service, covering the service along with the {{MV|Ali Cat}} until the 244 passenger ferry {{MV|Argyll Flyer}} was converted from the ten-year-old Banrion Chonamara of the Irish Aran Island Service.{{cite news | first = David | last = Goodwin | title = Ferry Launch is hit by first-day breakdown | date = 2011-07-01 | work = Greenock Telegraph | pages =1–2}}
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