News / Gemini departs village after year-long stay

1 December 2015 11:51

MV Gemini leaving Scalloway following a year-long stay on Tuesday morning. Photo: Saro Saravanan

MV GEMINI, the cruise ship that has been berthed in Scalloway for the past 14 months providing accommodation for oil and gas workers, departed the islands on Tuesday morning.

Lerwick Port Authority’s two tugs Kebister and Knab were drafted in to usher the Gemini out of Scalloway.

The boat first arrived in the village in October last year and is now heading off to a Turkish shipyard for a refit.

The cruise ship was chartered by Petrofac last year and has been berthed in Scalloway since October 2014. Photo: Shetnews/Neil Riddell

MV Gemini was first chartered by Petrofac in the summer of 2014 to accommodate up to 400 personnel as efforts to complete the far behind schedule Shetland Gas Plant were ramped up.

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