Good Shepherd
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Good Shepherd is based in Fair Isle, with a local crew and operates on the Fair Isle to Grutness run. During the summer months, it also calls weekly to Lerwick
History
The present vessel is the fourth Good Shepherd to serve on the route. The original Good Shepherd (1937), a wooden hulled decked vessel was wrecked at North Haven, Fair Isle on January 31st 1937 when she drove ashore from anchor. She was replaced by the Silver Spray, another wooden hulled decked vessel built by Herd & Mackenzie, Buckie, Scotland in the 1930s, and renamed Good Shepherd II shortly after her arrival in Shetland. The Good Shepherd III was a steel hulled vessel, as is the current Good Shepherd IV.
External links
- Pictures of all four vessels can be seen here.
