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Every week I am contributing a short article about a historic offshore support vessel type to the Towline Newsletter. This is not an entirely altruistic activity since I am hoping that the readers might choose to buy one of my books. And so it now seems to me in the spirit of advertising I should briefly suggest that this newsletter might be worth a visit so here is a link www.towingline.com . And this week's article is about the Clyde built VS 483s, so I included one of my own photos of the Toisa Intrepid. I particularly like the swans in the foreground.
The Deep Arctic is a 2009 built diving ship, claimed by the company website to be capable of working and here I quote the brochure "of working throughout the year in virtually all sea and weather conditions". I don't often express a view when it comes to Picture of the Day, but surely there are weather conditions in which they would recover the diving bell just for diver safety, no matter how powerful and sophisticated the vessel.
Back in the early days in the North Sea BP built a Sedco F type rig and called it Sea Quest, and this object was to discover the Forties Field. Supporting it were a number of anchor-handlers, at least some of them owned by P&O, the "Lady Boats". And here is a photograph of the Lady Margaret tied up to the Sea Quest, an illustration from 'The Story of the P&O". Could it be that they did not have many photos to choose from, since we can see that it has something of a problem. One of its lifeboats is in the sea and there is a tug connected to it astern. Could it be that it has a rope round a propeller? We will never know.