''Mighty Servant 1'' is a 29,000-ton
heavy-lift ship
A heavy-lift ship is a vessel designed to move very large loads that cannot be transported by normal ships. They are of two types:
*''Semi-submersible'' ships that take on water ballast to allow the load—usually another vessel—to be fl ...
capable of carrying very large vessels and
offshore platforms
Offshore may refer to:
Science and technology
* Offshore (hydrocarbons)
* Offshore construction, construction out at sea
* Offshore drilling, discovery and development of oil and gas resources which lie underwater through drilling a well
* Off ...
. Built for
Dutch
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* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
** Dutch people as an ethnic group ()
** Dutch nationality law, history and regulations of Dutch citizenship ()
** Dutch language ()
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shipping firm
Wijsmuller Transport, which merged in 1993 with
Dock Express Shipping
Dockwise was a Netherlands-based holding company in the marine transport industry. It was acquired by Boskalis in 2013 and was merged into the Boskalis brand name in 2018.
History
Dockwise was formed in September 1993 by the merger of two complem ...
to become
Breda
Breda ( , , , ) is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the southern part of the Netherlands, located in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Brabant. ...
-based offshore heavy lifting group,
Dockwise Shipping B.V. ''Mighty Servant 1'' carried structures such as
oil rigs
An oil rig is any kind of apparatus constructed for oil drilling.
Kinds of oil rig include:
* Drilling rig, an apparatus for on-land oil drilling
* Drillship, a floating apparatus for offshore oil drilling
* Oil platform, an apparatus for offshor ...
and
floating drydock
A dry dock (sometimes drydock or dry-dock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform. Dry docks are used for the construction, maintenance, ...
s. Originally wide, she was increased to in 1999 to lift the production rig
''Petrobras 36'' or ''P-36''.
Service
''Mighty Servant 1'' can carry the heaviest semi-submersible drilling units, harsh-environment deep-water jack-up rigs and large floating production platforms like
tension-leg platform
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A tension-leg platform (TLP) or extended tension leg platform (ETLP) is a vertically geotechnical engineering#Floating-moored structures, moored floating structure normally used for the offshore production of crude oil, oil or natural g ...
s,
oil platform
An oil platform (also called an oil rig, offshore platform, oil production platform, etc.) is a large structure with facilities to extract and process petroleum and natural gas that lie in rock formations beneath the seabed. Many oil platforms w ...
s and spars with drafts of up to .
See also
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Mighty Servant 2
''Mighty Servant 2'' was a 29,000-ton semi-submersible, heavy-lift ship operated by Dockwise. The ship drew worldwide attention in 1988 for transporting the mine-damaged from Dubai to Newport, Rhode Island.
The ship was built in 1983 by Oshim ...
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Mighty Servant 3
''Mighty Servant 3'' is a 27,000-ton semi-submersible heavy lift ship. Its deck is . The vessel was built in 1984 by Oshima Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. in Ōshima, Japan, for Dutch shipping firm Wijsmuller Transport, which merged in 1993 with Dock E ...
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BOKA Vanguard''
References
External links
Mighty Servant 1 hauling a Navy drydock{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100522223942/http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2005/August/drydock.htm , date=2010-05-22
Photos of sister ship Mighty Servant 2 hauling USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG 58)Photos of the wreck of sister ship Mighty Servant 2Mighty Servant 1 at Dockwise ShippingDockwise Shipping B.V.Mighty Servant leaving for sea
Semi-submersibles
Heavy lift ships
Ships of the Netherlands
Ships built by Oshima Shipbuilding