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.