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St Rognvald is last P&O boat away
(From The Orcadian dated October 3, 2002)

Arnold Calder

Despite the big crowds, the St Ola was not the final P&O vessel to leave Orkney waters.

The cargo vessel St Rognvald left Kirkwall at 11pm on Monday with freight bound for Aberdeen, when a small crowd gathered on the pier at Kirkwall to bid a final farewell to the P&O link with Orkney.

Local P&O manager, Mr Arnold Calder, a former Pipe Major with Kirkwall City Pipe Band, piped the ship away as she left Kirkwall for the final time.

(Picture: Graeme Smith)


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