Picture by Harry Stott, via http://www.tugspotters.com
Seaforth Clansman
IMO : 7406021
Build : 1977 by Cochrane and Sons – Selby in the UK, nr 1574
We have seen quit a few silly mast-designs on her but I think this one is topping the charts. If you were a mate on this vessel you surely weren’t too happy with all the blindspots caused by the revolutionary design of that “Fire-Fighting Monitor Mast-Thingy” aka FFMMT.
The rest of the vessel is quit ordinary BTW as visible on this (a bit blurry) picture, please notice the owners did have the “good” taste to put anchor-racks (AKA cowcatchers – I haven’t found out yet how to catch cows @ sea. ;-D ) on her.
Dunno source, via the Interwebs
Years & years later somebody, somewhere had a brain wave and had that FFMMT removed …….and replaced it with a helicopter-deck. Good move, as everybody knows Helicopter decks are the latest fashion in the offshore industry and you have to have one to be part of the in-crowd.
Unfortunately the conversion from FFMMT to helideck did not do anything at all to improve her looks.
She is called St Barbara now, maybe because the owner is a hugh fan of the television-series with the same-ish name??
What on earth are you talking about?
This vessel had the capability of tackling major rig fires head on with full view and control from the bridge. As a Naval Architect I worked on the design of this vessel and carried out supervision of the sea and river trials and the Fi-Fi gantry was not a problem!
What you have to remember that no one was rescued by helicopter from the rig during the Piper Alpha tradgedy.