Good uses for old supply boats include supporting monobuoy operations. Here is the Spurn Haven II, a former GOM supply ship the Ventura built in 1974, in action at the Tetney loading buoy - actually unloading buoy - in the entrance to the River Humber, about to pass up stores and a berthing master to an incoming tanker.

Photograph taken by Tim Roberts to other day and posted here on 28th November 2016.