A photograph (plus a colourised version) from the Newcastle Archives which shows the pontoon being fitted-out on the north bank of the Tyne.

She looks to be almost complete and ready for the trip out of Tynemouth, past Souter lighthouse, then arriving at Sunderland, with its shipbuilding industry at Wearside, then onto Middlesborough and the Tees, further south to Whitby, then Hull and the mouth of the Humber, past the Wash, the Thames, waving to Portsmouth, saluting Plymouth, around Land's End and up the Bristol Channel past Lundy Isle to Penarth in the Severn Sea, under the skilful towage of the John Dry Steam Tugs Limited company. [062]