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in 2009. From 30 June 2011 it was leased by Argyll Ferries Ltd as an interim ferry on the

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service, covering the service along with the until the 244 passenger ferry was converted from the ten-year-old ''Banrion Chonamara'' of the Irish Aran Island Service.

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