Photographs of ESV Iolair Photograph 1 - Iolair shortly before her launching from Scott Lithgow's Kingston Yard in Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire. Photograph 2 - Iolair negotiating the narrow channel in the River Clyde near Greenock prior to undergoing shipbuilder's trials. She is shown at, or very close to, her transit draught with the pontoons not quite submerged. Photograph 3 - Iolair in dry dock at Brest, Brittany, France. The after ends of the pontoons are shown, each having a thruster propeller in transverse tunnel and the main propellers in their Kort-type steering nozzles. Photograph 4 - Iolair in Loch Long, showing her fire fighting monitors, using sea water drawn using pumps in the pontoons. 1981