Bute Ferry

No vessel is named. The location lies by the short Colintraive–Rhubodach route, where small vehicle ferries worked across the Kyles of Bute. Those boats included simple landing craft and converted ferries, but the national record classifies this point only as a possible obstruction and attaches the year 1956. That is not enough to select one ferry from the local fleet.

There is no documented loss event for this exact feature. Old Bute Ferry Company boats were sometimes beached and left to rot, and some sank at moorings before being raised, but no checked source says which process created SWR322713. The year may record observation rather than sinking. A storm, grounding or deliberate abandonment should therefore remain possible, not stated fact.

No death, injury or rescue is recorded. An obstruction without an identified hull cannot support a crew list, and the broader ferry history should not be used to manufacture one. The local human value comes from the small ferries that kept Bute linked to Cowal for people, cars and goods, but this point has no confirmed final voyage or casualty group.

The saved point was recorded accurately, yet the thing at it is only classed as a possible obstruction. The public record gives no dimensions, material, depth or visible fittings. Nearby shore remains from former ferries make a boat interpretation plausible, but similarity and closeness are not identification. A modern inspection would be needed before calling it a named ferry hull.

The record belongs to the physical history of one of Scotland's shortest and most useful island crossings. Early car ferries were small, locally adapted and often ended their lives close to their route, leaving fragments rather than formal museum pieces. Keeping this object uncertain lets it add to that landscape without falsely attaching the life of Dhuirinish, Eilean Buidhe or another known boat.