The Fairmount Alpine is one of a set of identical anchor-handlers, billed by the company as the ultimate long distance towing vessels, and sometimes therefore seen on the horizon, ahead of large lumps of marine architecture. They have 16,000 bhp available giving them a bollard pull of about 200 tonnes.

The company has recently been in the news as the owners - now the Royal Boskalis Westminster Group have been going through the process of dispensing with their skilled Dutch crews and replacing them with something cheaper. I'm not sure how things stand today. 

Photograph taken by Kenny Polson in Singapore in the middle of October and posted here on 27th October 2016.

 
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