12/12/2018, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.

A treasure seeking ship - or, if you prefer, a research vessel.

The owner told me the vessel is used to locate sunken ships with known valuable cargoes onboard, and to dive & retrieve as much of the cargo as possible.
Currently 'work in progress' on a WW2 cargo ship sunk off the coast of Morocco.

Completed in 1968 by Chantiers Naval de Rupelmonde, Rupelmonde, Belgium (393)
633 g.t., as the Pilot mother-ship:
'Loodsboot 1' to 1986,
'Commandant Fourcault' to 2007 and
'Cdt. Fourcault' since.

In 2004 the vessel was converted to a search and rescue ship of 489 g.t.