Heavy-lift ship
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A heavy-lift ship is a vessel designed to move very large loads that cannot be handled by normal ships. They are of two types:Semi-submersible ships that take on water ballast to allow the load—usually another vessel—to be floated over the deck, whereupon the ballast is jettisoned and the ship's deck and cargo raised above the waterline.
Project cargo ships that use at least one heavy-lift crane for handling heavy cargo and sufficient ballast to assure stability and sea-keeping properties.
MV Blue Marlin carrying USS Cole after being holed by an Al-Qaeda explosive.
MV Dan Lifter returns RFA Sir Tristram to the United Kingdom in 1983 after she was badly damaged during the Falklands War of 1982.
The incomplete Australian landing helicopter dock HMAS Adelaide embarked on Blue Marlin
Cosco Shipping Zhi Yan Kou in Curaçao carrying three smaller vessels on board.
USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58)
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USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) is one of the final ships in the United States Navy's Oliver Hazard Perry-class of guided missile frigates (FFG). Commissioned in 1986, the ship was severely damaged by an Iranian mine in 1988, leading U.S. forces to respond with Operation Praying Mantis. Repaired and returned to duty, the ship served until decommissioned in 2015.
USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58), navigates in the Caribbean Sea during an exercise, 9 April 2007.
MV Mighty Servant 2 carrying the mine-damaged Samuel B. Roberts on 31 July 1988
Samuel B. Roberts in a dry dock in Dubai, UAE for temporary repairs.
Samuel B. Roberts's damaged hull.