Pilot boat Vandyke coming along side Condor Liberation to take off the Poole Harbour pilot. Condor Liberation then proceeded to the the Channel Islands in calm seas.
Pilot being brought out to Devonia in the Firth of Forth, near the end of a marvellous ornithological cruise that had started at Greenock and taken in Ailsa Craig, Rum, St Kilda, Sula Sgeir, Foula and Noss in Shetland, Orkney, Isle of May, etc. Jul 1966.
Thorsen was the pilot launch for the Port Phillip Pilot Service and was used mainly at the northern end of the bay approx years of service 1950's to 1979. Now used by the Royal yacht club of Victoria as a Race Committee boat.