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Largest in this registry
#20,494
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest heavy lift
#21
of 223 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#2
of 4 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
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 Mighty Servant 1 carried structures such as oil rigs and floating drydocks. Originally 40 m (130 ft) wide, she was increased to 50 m (160 ft) in 1999 to lift the production rig Petrobras 36 or P-36.
Vessel particulars
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
Construction
Measurements
In context
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 29,193 gross tons, Mighty Servant 1 is the 20,494th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 4.9 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 255 heavy lifts held here, it ranks 21st by tonnage — larger than 91% of that group. Their median tonnage is 1,670 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 24,484 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Russia (41 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Pella Sietas, with 8 hulls on record.
Netherlands Antilles is the country of registry for 14 vessels in this directory, of which Mighty Servant 1 is the 7th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (8 ships), and the median vessel measures 25,792 GT. Browse every ship flagged Netherlands Antilles.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 2 heavy lifts flying the Netherlands Antilles flag, of which none is larger than Mighty Servant 1.
Mighty Servant 1 was built in 1983, making it 43 years old. It is one of 1,578 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,112 GT; within it this ship is the 161st largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 753 vessels to Oshima Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 31,871 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 190.0 m overall, Mighty Servant 1 is 109.5 m longer than the 80.5 m median for heavy lifts on record, with a beam of 50.0 m and a draft of 4.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8130875 this registry holds 47 other vessels, whose median build year is 1983 and which range from 1981 to 1989. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1983.
Its IMO number, 8130875, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 1×6 + 3×5 + 0×4 + 8×3 + 7×2 = 115 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among heavy lifts
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Forte | 2012 | 36,653 |
| Hua Hai Long | 2012 | 31,726 |
| McDermott Derrick Barge No 50 | 1988 | 29,722 |
| Mighty Servant 1 (this ship) | 1983 | 29,193 |
| Zhen Hua 3 | 1971 | 25,504 |
| Stanislav Yudin | 1985 | 24,822 |
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Mighty Servant 1 on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy kees torn, reused under CC BY-SA 2.0.
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