GOLDENEYE

[Dennis Maccoy]

From Brooke Marine at Lowestoft in1966, the mooring & salvage vessel Goldeneye at Dundee on 31 July 1994.

[E28]

Launched as Brooke's yard 327 30 march 1966 her official title is a mooring salvage & boom defence vessel, Goldeneye was referred to as MSBV 04, her sister Garganey yard 326 launched 12 december 1965 was MSBV 03, the owners being the Secretary of State for Defence.

6 of this type were built, Mandarin & Pintail 3 years before, Goosander & Pochard later, becoming the last of a type whose functions were being superceded by new methods.

If you needed to call Goldeneye her signal letters were GQJA or Golf Quebec Juliet Alpha, here parked between the two locks for access to the main basin in Pompey dockyard 1982...

[Hornbeam]

What happened to this Class please sold on scrapped after the M.O.D. finished with them they seem to spend a lot of time laid against a Jetty somewhere. You can see where the smaller old TCC Wilton basic design was hatched from which also had a Secondary Role of Boom Defence in the event of.