The 11806 Gross Ton, Special Purpose Vessel Deep Pioneer featured in this image was built in 1984 (possibly in Russia) and originally named Anatoliy Zheleznyakov. She is variously described on the Internet as an Offshore Support or Diving Support Vessel. I photographed her from Southampton's Mayflower Park as she was departing the Western Docks in May 2009 the year she became Deep Pioneer. One Internet source (November 2021) records that she was taken out of service (scrapped?) in 2017.