Quote Originally Posted by George View Post
Thats true...I worked on the Tynwald for 3 years.

My... cannot understand why they sold that ship off? twas the fastest in the fleet at the time.
They were moving over to ro-ro car ferry ships. All, or most, of IoM ships were turbines, which were fast but expensive to run. They only went top speed when full as it was too expensive in fuel to maintain top speed with half a ferry load. Tynwald was 27 years old when scrapped.