MV Saturn provide extra sailings for the Bute Highland Games , subsequently returning to Gourock on 27 August 2011 to help out the Argyll Ferries passenger ferries on the busiest weekend of the year for the Cowal Gathering (Highland Games) in Dunoon. These turned out to be her final passenger sailings for Calmac, as she was no longer required in the fleet with no Gourock-Dunoon vehicle service and the being spare following the introduction of the . "Saturn" was de-stored at Gourock and moved to Rosneath on 30 August 2011. She was laid up, awaiting a decision on future service. In November
Cowal subsequent invasion by Norsemen, the Hebridean islands of Dal Riata became the Kingdom of the Isles, which following Norwegian unification became part of Norway, as "Suðreyjar" (historically anglicised as "Sodor"). The remaining parts of Dal Riata attracted the name "Argyle" (later "Argyll"), in reference to their ethnicity. In an unclear manner, the kingdom of Alba was founded elsewhere by groups originating from Argyll, and expanded to include Argyll itself. However, an 11th-century Norse military campaign led to the formal transfer of Lorn, Islay, Kintyre, Knapdale, Bute, and Arran, to "Suðreyjar". This left Alba with no part of Argyll except Cowal,