I remember the Forties Moon very well , The picture was taken as it came into Great Yarmouth and I would guess it was around 79- 80. I was the Company man based in a spool fabricators in Gt Yarmouth and we used to load her up with pipes every week to go out to the Hewett platform in the North Sea off the coast of Gt Yarmouth where they were doing a major revamp of the platform. We were getting some feedback that the rigging for the lifts from the Forties Moon upto the platform were causing problems - difference being a marine lift rigging and installation lift rigging. I took a trip out to the platform on the Forties Moon to see how we could improve it. Its almost 30 years ago now but I remember the Captain out on the aft bridge struggling to hold it stern to the platform out in shitty weather with just forward and reverse levers to play with.
Ironically I see the BB Lifter on a regular basis and although I knew it was an old supply boat I never guessed it was the old Forties Moon , I thought that maybe it was one of the old Smit Lloyd vessels from around that era.
Thanks for the memory as they say.
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