P&O Scottish Ferries

{{ infobox company

|name = P&O Scottish Ferries

|logo = File:Po scottish ferries logo.svg

|type = Subsidiary

|predecessor = North of Scotland, Orkney & Shetland Steam Navigation Company

|foundation = 1971

|founder =

|defunct = 30 September 2002

|successor = NorthLink Ferries

|location = Aberdeen

|area_served = Scotland
Orkney
Shetland

|key_people =

|industry = Shipping

|services = Passenger transportation
Freight transportation

|revenue = £31.7 million

|revenue_year = 2001

|operating_income = £2.3 million

|income_year = 2001

|net_income = £2.1 million

|net_income_year = 2001

|num_employees = 410

|num_employees_year = December 2001

|parent = P&O

|website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20020928072054/http://www.poscottishferries.co.uk/ www.poscottishferries.co.uk]

|footnotes = }}

P&O Scottish Ferries ran ferry services between the Scottish mainland and Orkney and Shetland from 1971 to 2002.

History

P&O took over the routes from the long-established North of Scotland, Orkney & Shetland Steam Navigation Company in 1971. It branded the services P&O Ferries from 1975 to 1989 and P&O Scottish Ferries thereafter.

The services were taken over by NorthLink Ferries on 1 October 2002.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/2287314.stm End of an era for ferry link] BBC News 30 September 2002{{cite book|last=Deayton|first=Alistair|title=Orkney & Shetland Steamers|date=2002|publisher=Tempus Publishing|location=Stroud}}

Services

File:PandO Ferry St Sunniva - geograph.org.uk - 1548621.jpg in 1991]]

File:PandO ferry St Clair (V) at Lerwick,1994 - geograph.org.uk - 493409.jpg in 1994]]

P&O Scottish Ferries sailed from Aberdeen to Stromness and Lerwick, and from Scrabster to Stromness.[https://web.archive.org/web/20020928072054/http://www.poscottishferries.co.uk/ Orkney, Shetland and Beyond] P&O Scottish Ferries

In keeping with the tradition of the company which preceded them on the route, their vessels were (with one or two exceptions) named after saints, such as the St Clair and the St Magnus.

Fleet

At the end of operations in 2002, the company had four vessels covering the routes:

St Ola (IV): Scrabster - Stromness
St Sunniva (III): Aberdeen - Stromness - Lerwick
St Clair (V): Aberdeen - Lerwick
St Rognvald (IV): Freight services, calling at Aberdeen, Stromness, Kirkwall and Lerwick