Mighty Servant 1
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Mighty Servant 1 is a 29,000-ton heavy-lift ship capable of carrying very large vessels and offshore platforms
. built for Dutch
shipping firm Wijsmuller Transport, which merged in 1993 with Dock Express Shipping to become Breda
-based offshore heavy lifting group, Dockwise Shipping B.V.
Mighty Servant 1 carried things such as oil rigs and floating drydocks.
Originally 40 meters wide, she was increased to 50 meters around 1999 to lift the production rig P36.
s, oil platform
s and spars with drafts of up to 14 metres.
Oil platform
An oil platform, also referred to as an offshore platform or, somewhat incorrectly, oil rig, is a lаrge structure with facilities to drill wells, to extract and process oil and natural gas, and to temporarily store product until it can be brought to shore for refining and marketing...
. built for Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
shipping firm Wijsmuller Transport, which merged in 1993 with Dock Express Shipping to become Breda
Breda
Breda is a municipality and a city in the southern part of the Netherlands. The name Breda derived from brede Aa and refers to the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa. As a fortified city, the city was of strategic military and political significance...
-based offshore heavy lifting group, Dockwise Shipping B.V.
Dockwise
-History:Dockwise was formed in September 1993 by the merger of two complementary companies, Wijsmuller Transport and Dock Express Shipping , becoming the world's largest seagoing heavy transport shipping company. The combined company operated from a new headquarters in Meer , Belgium...
Mighty Servant 1 carried things such as oil rigs and floating drydocks.
Originally 40 meters wide, she was increased to 50 meters around 1999 to lift the production rig P36.
Service
She can carry the heaviest semi-submersible drilling units, harsh-environment deep-water jack-up rigs and large floating production platforms like tension-leg platformTension-leg platform
A Tension-leg platform or Extended Tension Leg Platform is a vertically moored floating structure normally used for the offshore production of oil or gas, and is particularly suited for water depths greater than 300 metres and less than 1500 meters...
s, oil platform
Oil platform
An oil platform, also referred to as an offshore platform or, somewhat incorrectly, oil rig, is a lаrge structure with facilities to drill wells, to extract and process oil and natural gas, and to temporarily store product until it can be brought to shore for refining and marketing...
s and spars with drafts of up to 14 metres.
See also
- Mighty Servant 2Mighty Servant 2Mighty Servant 2 was a 29,000-ton heavy-lift ship operated by Dockwise, noted for transporting from Dubai to Newport, Rhode Island, in 1988.The ship was built in 1983 by Oshima Shipbuilding Co. Ltd...
- sister ship, capsized whilst transporting a topside module and subsequently scrapped. - Mighty Servant 3 - sister ship - a semi-submersible that carried after the destroyer was attacked by suicide bombers.