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.

Photo by Victor Gibson in 2001 and published here on 13th April 2017.