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Here is the UT 755 LC Rem Star. To tell the truth I did not recognise the design until I had typed the letters and numbers into the article, so by now they are quite a bit different from how they used to be in 1995. This one was photographed, I think, in Den Helder since I seem to recollect you have to transit a naval port to get into the area servicing the offshore vessels. And you will notice the this is not actually doing stuff offshore, it has one of those gangways for getting to wind turbines on the deck and two FRCs on the port side.
Subsea 7 vessels have featured on this site a few times, probably because they are such unusual vessels, particularly these flexible pipelayers, which we would have though to be impossible in days gone by. This one, the Seven Phoenix was built in 2002 and so is one of the earlier ships of the type, and it can be seen that the pipelay tower is projected over the port side. These towers are designed to be capable of a certain loading and this one is 310 tons. It is a DPII ship kept in position by multiple thrusters. I'm not sure whether there are any operating anywhere else in the world, other than the Campos Basin.
Around the turn of the first decade of this century Tidewater had Remontowa, the Polish shipyard, design and build an number of small anchor handlers, designated the NED 8167L. This vessel, the Tommy Sheridan Tide, is one. They have a useful 13000 bhp available giving them a bollard pull of 155 tons. Although Tidewater don't choose to make details of their fleet available I have photos of eight of them in my archives, sent in by enthusiastic photographers - so there may be eight of them.