Pharos SG preparing for Falklands

A vessel originally launched in Port Glasgow by The Queen is back in Greenock, before heading for a new life in the South Atlantic sailing around the Falkland Islands as a Fisheries Patrol, reports the British press. Pharos SG was launched at Ferguson’s in December 1992 for the Northern Lighthouse Board as a multi-purpose lighthouse tender. She has now been sold to Byron Marine of Southampton and The Falklands, who already have two ships in the South Atlantic. They are getting modifications done at Greenock’s Garvel Clyde drydock to ready the Pharos for a contract with the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands government. The Pharos SG will work on fishery patrol and logistic support, as well as carrying passengers.