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Showing posts with label Miscellaneous. Show all posts

Saturday, 25 October 2025

CMOS Installer




 The CMOS Installer, which is managed and operated jointly by Enshore Subsea and Herbosch-Kiere, is a shallow draft, highly manoeuvrable cable laying vessel,seen here working in the Firth of Forth.

Thursday, 23 October 2025

Fingal







 Fingal was commissioned by the Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB) in 1963 and was the last ship to be built by the Blythswood Shipbuilding Company in Glasgow. Registered in Leith, she was stationed for 30 years in Oban and then for 6 years in Stromness, ferrying lighthouse keepers, essential supplies and maintenance staff to lighthouses, as well as undertaking repairs to navigational aids throughout the West Coast and the North of Scotland. Fingal retired from NLB service in 2000. 

After retiring from NLB service, Fingal was sold to a private owner and renamed ‘Windsor Castle’. The proud new owner fully maintained the ship in working order for 14 years on the River Fal in Cornwall.



It was in December 2008 that Fingal's owner first approached The Royal Yacht Britannia Trust (the Trust) to enquire if it was interested in acquiring Windsor Castle. There then followed six years of negotiations before the ship was eventually acquired by the Trust in July 2014. After a dry dock survey in Falmouth, the ship was towed to Leith in August 2014 and the detailed designs began.



Two years later her original name: Fingal was restored as a tribute to the outstanding role she had performed for the NLB, and the great affection with which she was held throughout the coastal communities she served.

Thanks to https://www.fingal.co.uk/our-story/ for information.

Wednesday, 25 September 2024

SD Menai






 SD MENAI is a Offshore supply vessel built in 1981 by DUNSTON RICHARD THORNE - THORNE, U.K.. Currently sailing under the flag of United Kingdom (UK).

Photographed at Holy Loch marina.

Wednesday, 14 August 2024

Cardigan Bay Launch


Shipyard worker at the BAE Govan yard on the day of launch of  RFA Cardigan Bay on the 9th of April 2005.

Tuesday, 30 April 2024

Thursday, 28 March 2024

MPV Hirta










 MPV Hirta is a marine protection vessel operated by the Scottish Government

She is seen here passing Erskine and New Shot Island. 

Thursday, 29 February 2024

MRV SCOTIA










MRV Scotia was built by Ferguson Shipbuilders Ltd at Port Glasgow for the then Scottish Office and completed early in 1998. Operating from her home port in Aberdeen, Scotia is used for fish stock assessment and environmental monitoring in the North Sea and north Atlantic waters. She carries a crew of 18 and can accommodate up to 12 scientists.

Photographed here passing Erskine on her way down the Clyde.

Thursday, 1 February 2024

Thursday, 9 November 2023

HMY Britannia



 HMY Britannia was built at the shipyard of John Brown & Co. Ltd in Clydebank, Dunbartonshire. 

She was launched by Queen Elizabeth II on 16 April 1953, and commissioned on 11 January 1954. The ship was designed with three masts: a 133-foot (41 m) foremast, a 139-foot (42 m) mainmast, and a 118-foot (36 m) mizzenmast. The top aerial on the foremast and the top 20 feet (6.1 m) of the mainmast were hinged to allow the ship to pass under bridges.

She was decommissioned in 1997 and is now a tourist attraction at Ocean Terminal Leith. 

Friday, 21 July 2023

AQUA GRIPFISK


 AQUA GRIPFISK (IMO: 9158642) is a Fish Carrier that was built in 1997 (26 years ago) and is sailing under the flag of Norway.

Tuesday, 23 May 2023

Top Cat



 Top Cat a tour boat that operates from James Watt Dock.

Sunday, 21 May 2023

Lara 1






 Lara 1 crane ship which had been moving ship parts from KGV dock to BAE shipyard at Govan.

Thursday, 13 April 2023

Altair




 Altair entering Arbroath Harbour after a day out fishing .