| Description | Image 1: Aerial view of MCP-01, with flare lit, shows the compression modules. Circa 1980s.
Image 2:MCP-01's control room, 1984. Shows banks of computers and telephones down the centre of the room and switches and lights along the green wall in the background. With two people in the background, one seated and one standing, both smiling for the camera.
Image 3: MCP-01's unlit flare tip, taken level with it with clouds in the background, dated 1986.
Image 4: MCP-01's lit flare tip, taken slightly from below, dated 1984.
Image 5: MCP-01's lit flare and crane taken at dusk. The crane is mostly silhouetted against the sea and sky in he background. Dated 1986.
Image 6: Picture of a workshop flooded ankle-deep, with some men in orange overalls in the background wading around. Much of the foreground is taken up by the flooded corridor with some machinery to either side. Dated 1986.
Image 7: John Flett sitting behind a desk in MCP-01's office, with papers and a hard hat on the desk and papers pinned to the noticeboard behind. He is looking towards the camera and holding his glasses. The light source is off to one side and so one side of the photo is shadowy. Dated 1992.
Image 8: Black and white photocopy of a cartoon drawn by Jim Kinniburgh, dated 1986. It was presented to Iain Cameron at the time he was undergoing treatment for gallstones and depicts him on the operating table with the surgeon picking out the gallstones and placing them in a wheelbarrow, whilst telling the nurse to cancel the order of gravel for his driveway.
Image 9: MCP-01 seen from sea level, in the distance, with a small lifeboat in the foreground. Three men in orange survival suits are on board, one of whom is looking towards the camera. Dated 1984.
Image 10: Photo of the medic on board MCP-01, JJ, dressed in grey casual clothes and sitting in a chair in the radio room. Behind and to the side of him are desks, telecommunications machinery and rolls of paper. Dated 1984.
Image 11: Montrose Offshore Fire Training, with the burning structure in the background and four men with fire-fighting equipment, silhouetted by the fire, in the middleground. Dated October 1983.
Image 12:Montrose Offshore Fire Training, with a three storey 'rig' that is ablaze. Two people are on the top level of the structure watching, and a jet of water is trained on the flames by people out of shot. Dated October 1983.
Image 13: MCP-01's radio tower and crane at sunset. The two structures are silhouetted as the sun sets behind the crane. Dated 1986.
Image 14: Picture of the radio tower, crane arm and the lit flare on MCP-01, from the deck looking up with the clear blue sky behind. Dated 1984.
Image 15: Photo of two men playing snooker in the recreation room on MCP-01. One man is sitting in an armchair to one side. The other two men, dressed in jeans and trainers, are holding cues and looking at the table. There is a TV and on in the background. Dated 1986. |