Mighty Servant 3

Mighty Servant 3
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MV Mighty Servant 3
Career Netherlands Antilles
Name: MV Mighty Servant 3
Owner: Dockwise Shipping B.V.
Port of registry: Netherlands Antilles
Builder: Oshima Shipbuilding Co. Ltd.
Oshima, Japan
Yard number: 10074
Launched: 31 December 2009
Completed: 1984
Identification: IMO number: 8130899
Status: Operational
Notes: [1]
General characteristics
Class and type: semi-submersible heavy lift ship
Tonnage:  27,720 tons deadweight (DWT) 22,391 GT (gross tonnage)
Length: loa: 181.23 m (594 ft 7 in)
lbp: 168.93 m (554 ft 3 in)
Beam: 40 m (131 ft 3 in)
Draught: 4 – 22 m
Depth: 12.00 m
Depth of hold:

100 x 16 x 7.5 m (330 x 52 x 25 ft)

Hatch: 31 x 14.6 m
Speed: 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Endurance: 44 days
Crew: 20

Mighty Servant 3 is a 27,000-ton semi-submersible heavy lift ship. Its deck is 40 metres wide and 140 metres long. The vessel was built in 1984 by Oshima Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. in Oshima, Japan, 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.

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Service

Most of the cargo transported by Mighty Servant 3 are oil platforms and drilling industry related gear. When loading its mammoth burdens, the ship takes thousands of gallons of water into ballast tanks, sinking its cargo deck underwater. The cargo is floated into position, whereupon the Mighty Servant 3 will slowly pump out its ballast, lifting the deck up to sailing position.

The vessel is capable of carrying the heaviest semi-submersible drilling units, harsh-environment deep-water jack-up rigs and large floating production tension-leg platforms, semi-submersibles and spars with drafts of up to 14 metres.[2]

Sinking and return to service

On 6 December 2006 Mighty Servant 3 sank in 62 meters of water near the port of Luanda, Angola, while offloading the drilling platform Aleutian Key.[3] During submerging to unload cargo, the ship developed a list and continued to submerge beyond design limits. There were no casualties, nor damage to the transported platform.[4] After 5 months of resting on the seabed, it was salvaged by Smit International and handed back to its owners on 26 May 2007.[5] She was transported to Cape Town for repairs, arriving on Sunday 17 June 2007.[5] In August 2009, after an extensive rebuild, she was returned to service.[6]

Post-return service

In 2010, Mighty Servant 3 was outfitted with oil skimming equipment and used in the cleanup of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.[7][8]

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