Lord of the Isles in her first season off Inveraray (George Washington Wilson) In the middle of the 1870s, the ducal seat of Inveraray was poorly served by steamboats. David Hutcheson provided the flagship Iona on the important tourist link with Tarbert and Ardrishaig, but the upper part of Lochfyne was relegated to the slow Inveraray Castle and Mary Jane which were mainly concerned with goods traffic and spent a whole day on the one way journey, returning the next, reminiscent of the 1840s. Indeed both steamers on the route had been built in that decade. Inveraray around 1865 In 1875, the Mary Jane was withdrawn and converted into the Glencoe for use as a tourist steamer on the west coast, leaving the Inveraray Castle to provide three sailings a week to Inveraray. Inveraray Castle (Robertson Gourock) The fastest route to Inveraray involved sailing to Lochgoilhead and then traveling by...