From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mighty Servant 2
Mighty Servant 2
Draught: 8.77 m (28.8 ft) (sailing)
26 m (85 ft) (submerged)
4 m (13 ft) (minimum)
Depth: 12 m (39 ft)
Depth of hold: 50 x 16 x 7.5 m (160 x 52 x 25 ft)
Deck 50 × 150 m (160 × 490 ft)
clearance: load: 19 to 40 t (19 to 39 long tons; 21 to 44
short tons) per m²
Speed: 15 knots
Endurance: 59 days
Crew: 20
Notes: [1]
Mighty Servant 2 was a 29,000-ton heavy-lift ship operated
by Dockwise, noted for transporting USS Samuel B. Roberts
from Dubai to Newport, Rhode Island, in 1988.
MV Mighty Servant 2 carries USS Samuel B. Roberts from Dubai
The ship was built in 1983 by Oshima Shipbuilding
to Newport, R.I., in 1988.
Co. Ltd. in Oshima, Japan, for Dutch shipping firm Wijs-
Career muller Transport, which merged in 1993 with Dock Ex-
press Shipping to become Breda-based offshore heavy
Name: MV Mighty Servant 2
lifting group Dockwise Shipping B.V. The vessel capsized
Owner: Dockwise Shipping B.V. in 1999 and was scrapped in 2000.
Operator: Dockwise Shipping B.V.
Port of
Service
Netherlands Antilles
registry: Mighty Servant 2’ was capable of carrying the heaviest
Builder: Oshima Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. semi-submersible drilling units, harsh-environment
Oshima, Japan deep-water jack-up rigs and large floating production
tension-leg platforms, semi-submersibles and spars with
Yard number: 10073
drafts of up to 14 metres.[2] Most of the ship’s cargoes
Completed: 1983 were oil platforms and related gear. When loading its
mammoth burdens, the ship took thousands of tons of
Out of 2 November 1999
service: water into ballast tanks, submerging its cargo deck un-
derwater. The cargo would be floated into position,
Identification: ABS class no: whereupon Mighty Servant 2 would slowly pump out its
Call sign:
ballast, lifting the deck up to sailing position.
DNV ID:
IMO number: 8130887
MMSI no.: USS Samuel B. Roberts
Fate: scrapped: 2000 Her most famous job was the July 1988 haulage of the
U.S. Navy’s USS Samuel B. Roberts from Dubai to Newport,
General characteristics Rhode Island after the guided missile frigate struck a
mine in the Persian Gulf on 14 April 1988. The 125-meter
Tonnage: 29,193 gross register tons (GRT)
40,190 metric tons deadweight (DWT) frigate barely fit on Mighty Servant 2’s cargo deck; holes
had to be cut to accommodate the frigate’s sonar dome
Length: 190.03 m (623.5 ft) and stabilizing fins. The loading, which was supervised
174.70 m (573.2 ft) b.p.
by divers and underwater video monitors, took about
Beam: 40 m (130 ft) 12 hours, thanks to gaps measured in mere centimetres.
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About 20 of the frigate’s 200-man crew remained aboard
during the 8,100-mile, 30-day voyage.
References
[1] "Mighty Servant 1". Dockwise.
http://www2.dockwise.com/vessels/node/
Loss 200?tab=factsandfigures. Retrieved 7 November
Mighty Servant 2 capsized on 2 November 1999 near the 2009.
Indonesian island of Singkep (0°29′S 104°12′E / 0.48°S [2] "Exceptional Transport Management". Dockwise.
104.2°E / -0.48; 104.2Coordinates: 0°29′S 104°12′E / 0.48°S http://www.dockwise.com. Retrieved 7 November
104.2°E / -0.48; 104.2). The ship was en route from Singa- 2009.
pore to Cabinda, Angola, bearing the North Nemba Top- [3] "Maritime Casualties 1999 And Before". The Cargo
sides 8,790-ton offshore production module. The vessel Letter. 2007. http://www.cargolaw.com/
tipped onto its side in 35 meters of water in reportedly presentations_casualties_a.html. Retrieved 22
calm seas. A hydrographic survey of the area later discov- November 2010.
ered an unmarked single isolated pinnacle of granite di- [4] "2006 Nightmare M/V Mighty Servant 3". The Cargo
rectly on the ship’s course. Five crew members perished, Letter. 2007. http://cargolaw.com/
including two Dutch and two Filipino men. Mighty Ser- 2006nightmare_mightyserve3.html. Retrieved 22
vant 2 was declared a total loss.[3] In 2000, the wreck was November 2010.
transported to Alang, India and scrapped.[4] [5] "The Mighty Servant 3 Rejoins Dockwise Fleet".
Dockwise. 7 August 2009. http://ir.dockwise.com/
Sister ships phoenix.zhtml?c=208652&p=irol-
newsArticle&ID=1318616&highlight=. Retrieved 22
Mighty Servant 2 had two sister ships, Mighty Servant 1, November 2010.
built in 1983, and Mighty Servant 3, built in 1984. Both
were built for Wijsmuller Transport.
On 6 December 2006, Mighty Servant 3 sank in 62 me-
External links
ters of water near the port of Luanda, Angola, while of- • Photos of Mighty Servant 2 hauling USS Samuel B.
floading the drilling platform Aleutian Key. There were no Roberts (FFG 58)
casualties. In August 2009, Dockwise Shipping reported it • Photos of the wreck of Mighty Servant 2
had been returned to service.[5] • Model of sister ship, Mighty Servant 1
• Page about sister ship, Mighty Servant 3
See also • Dockwise Shipping B.V.
• MV Blue Marlin, a heavy-lift ship that carried
USS Cole.
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Categories:
• Semi-submersibles
• Heavy lift ships
• Ships of the Netherlands
• Shipwrecks in the Indian Ocean
• Maritime incidents in 1999
• 1983 ships
• Ships built by Oshima Shipbuilding
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