PREMIUM National scandal : Four lifeline Scots ferries break down in three weeks and replacement can only take four lorries SCOTLAND S lifeline ferry network is in crisis ahead of the easing of lockdown with four vessels breaking down in the space of three weeks and a replacement freight service that can only take four lorries, the Herald can reveal. Campaigners have have said that heads should already have rolled over the state of the nation s ferry services describing it as a national scandal . CalMac s largest ferry MV Loch Seaforth has been taken off the Ullapool-Stornoway route to be taken into dry dock for major engine repairs.