2012
HY3704 : Scapa Flow vessels
taken 12 years ago, 3 km from Hobbister, Mainland, Orkney Islands, Scotland
Scapa Flow vessels
Scapa Flow is well known historically - see
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In the foreground is the Gulden Leeuw - see
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The strange looking vessel is Petrojarl Banff, a Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel - see
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She is 'resting' in the sheltered waters of the Flow after an accident in the North Sea Oilfields where she lost tension in several of her anchors, causing her to drift dangerously off station (she has no main engines, only positioning thrusters).
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