Heavy lift ship - semi-submerging vessel for transportation of very large loads.

A heavy lift ship is a vessel designed to move very large loads that cannot be handled by normally equipped ships.

The company also owns 4 heavy lift ships, capable of lifting loads up to 500 metric tons.

Dockwise Vanguard, the worlds largest heavy lift ship.

Sir Tristram was then returned to the United Kingdom on a heavy lift ship and extensively rebuilt.

Proof-of-concept testing began in 2005, with heavy lift ships serving as substitutes for the MLPs.

Her deck is 70% larger than the MV Blue Marlin, the second biggest heavy lift ship.

Delivery of previous Brooke Maine patrol boats to the client nations was normally done by loading the craft on a heavy lift ship.

Blue Marlin is a semi-submersible heavy lift ship designed to transport very large semi-submersible drilling rigs above the transport ship's deck.

The ship was featured in Mega Movers, when it was transported to Bahrain on top of a heavy lift ship.

Dockwise Vanguard is a semi-submersible heavy lift ship owned and operated by Dockwise B.V.

On 1 April 2009 Chicoutimi was loaded aboard the submersible heavy lift ship Tern in Bedford Basin.

Typically, the LARC-LX was carried as deck cargo on a commercial vessel or heavy lift ship to be transported overseas.

The heavy lift ship sailed via the Cape of Good Hope to avoid the risk of the ship and her cargo being hijacked by Somali pirates.

The U.S. Navy has also chartered other heavy lift ships to carry smaller craft, usually mine-countermeasure craft, or other patrol craft.

As of 2008, the Atlantska plovidba fleet consists of 21 ships of three types: bulk carriers, heavy lift ships, and Coastal trading vessels.

SS Cape May (T-AKR-5063) is a steam powered heavy lift ship and one of two operated by Military Sealift Command.

The heavy lift ships from PQ16 including SS Empire Elgar stayed at Archangel and Molotovsk (now Severodvinsk) unloading convoys for over 14 months.

On 26 May the ACG was transferred from Tobruk to other ships as the heavy lift ship was needed to support the Pacific Forum meeting at Apia in Samoa.

For example, the Empire Elgar, a British heavy lift ship that arrived in Arkhangelsk with convoy PQ16 and subsequently spent eight weeks unloading ships from the ill-fated convoy PQ17.

On 27 June 1988, Roberts was loaded onto the Mighty Servant 2, a semi-submersible heavy lift ship owned by Dutch shipping firm Wijsmuller Transport and carried back to Newport for $1.3 million.

While several British and United States vessels were eventually made available in mid-1945, the Australian Army's chief engineer, Major General Clive Steele, chose to design and build a heavy lift ship for the Army.

After some repairs were made at Faslane, the Department of National Defence contracted Eide Marine Services to transport Chicoutimi aboard the submersible heavy lift ship Eide Transporter to Halifax.

The ADF's main transport assets were the Royal Australian Air Force's 24 C-130 Hercules transport aircraft and the Navy's amphibious heavy lift ship HMAS Tobruk.

After construction of the hull is completed, it will be delivered by heavy lift ship to BAE Systems Australia facilities in Victoria (planned for the first quarter of 2013) for superstructure work and fitting out.

Some of the corporation's products include the famous heavy-lift ship Blue Marlin.

Mighty Servant 1 is a 29,000-ton heavy-lift ship capable of carrying very large vessels and offshore platforms.

'A second problem was that the Aberthaw Fisher, the heavy-lift ship best suited for the job, was already involved in another charter.

Ships that fall outside these categories include Semi-submersible heavy-lift ships or OHGC.

In 1999, the heavy-lift ship Mighty Servant 2 sunk in 35 meters of water near Singkep after striking a solitary, isolated and previously unmapped spire of granite.

Scout was transported from Naval Station Ingleside aboard the semi-submersible heavy-lift ship Condock III, chartered by Military Sealift Command.

One month later, the cruiser entered the Persian Gulf, and in early July, stood guard in the Strait as the damaged frigate was borne out on the Mighty Servant 2 heavy-lift ship.

To speed her return to her homeport of Frederikshavn after 385 days of deployment in the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, she was transported on board the heavy-lift ship Grietje.