Arrival of SVS Grenville
Report from Shirley Squibb and Cynthia Green
The Pristine Seas National Geographic Expedition ship SVS Grenville arrived at Tristan da Cunha early in the evening of Sunday 15th January 2017.
On Sunday evening thirteen passengers came ashore. They were six contractors who will work on further refurbishment of Calshot Harbour and seven islanders: Chief Islander Ian Lavarello, Dilys Green, Andrew Green, Tanya Green, Emma, Ryan and Tyler Swain.
Ovenstones vessels only carry 12 passengers and so the Tristan Government is immensely grateful to organisers of the National Geogrpahic Expedition to have chartered a ship with enough capacity to enable seven islanders and six contractors to travel out to the island at a busy time.
Twenty team members stayed on board overnight and were able to land on Monday morning to tour the Settlement before returning to the ship which departed an noon to get the expedition's work underway.
Photo from Kelly Burns shows SVS Grenville anchored off Tristan
on Monday 16th January with a pontoon bringing team members back to the ship
prior to departure at noon.