The Huafa is a UT708 built in Norway many years ago. The type was briefly a follow-up to the UT704, similar but more powerful, having 1200 bhp available and with more extensive accommodation. The UT704 had been extremely spartan. It seems that I am trawling through my records these days for old stuff to entertain my visitors, since we are still in lockdown due to the corona virus, in most of the world, and the oil industry is once more gasping for breath. It takes me back to 1985 when my employers were sacking some of us almost monthy and then calling us back when our ships got a bit more work.

The photo was taken somewhere in the Far East by Ian Mathieson in 2008 and posted here on 27th April 2020.