Subjects: Design

She is brand-new and ready for battle. USS Gravely is the newest ship in the US Navy. Before she is deployed, the ship and her crew are put through their paces to prove they are ready for combat. Mighty Ships has exclusive access aboard USS Gravely during this crucial time.

The World’s Largest Amphibious Transport Dock. With 7.5 tons of steel salvaged from the wreckage of the Twin Towers forming her bow stem, USS New York is tribute to those who perished on September 11, 2011. From the images of the World Trade Center, to the banner listing the fallen, to the Broadway street sign donated by NYC’s mayor, this ship is a powerful symbol. But she’s more than that.

Consistently voted the world’s top cruise ship by Condé Nast, Crystal Serenity is full of luxuries. She features contemporary suites, dining by the likes of Nobu, even penthouse suites with a full-service butler. And her guests keep coming back for more – half the passengers on any given sailing are repeat bookings. This cruise will take MIGHTY SHIPS into ports viewers have never seen before, including: the famous sites of Sydney harbour, the port of Melbourne, beautiful Bali and a large-scale furniture load in Semarang, Indonesia.

She’s brand-new and about to make history. The Dutch company Van Oord has just received its new fallpipe vessel called Stornes. She deploys a long hollow pipe that runs from the ship to the seafloor. Rocks are loaded into the pipe and “fall” down to the bottom, hence the term “fallpipe”. The rocks are used to provide foundations and protection for pipelines that are then laid on the ocean floor. Stornes has been designed and built specifically for this purpose. Now, MIGHTY SHIPS follows Stornes on a project that has her working deeper than any other fallpipe vessel in history.

She’s not even a year old and already has a party reputation. With name-brand entertainment, more than twenty bars and restaurants, and hot pool decks that transform into even hotter nightclubs, Norwegian Epic is a billion-dollar showboat. This is not your (grand)parents’ cruise ship. Mighty Ships captures all the vitality of this ship’s energetic crew and clientele as they party their way through a weeklong Caribbean cruise on one of the largest cruise ships afloat.

This luxury cruise ship is brand-new and built to impress. Only six months old, Le Boreal is as sleek and nimble as a yacht, with the luxurious appointments and service of a cruise ship. She’s also tough – custom-crafted to take on the furious weather and towering waves of the Southern Ocean.

In the arsenal of the world’s most advanced superpower, one weapon is feared the most… the ballistic nuclear missile submarine. Get an unprecedented look at USS Kentucky, one of the U.S. Navy’s Ohio-Class ballistic missile nuclear-powered submarines; virtually undetectable, she is capable of launching a surprise nuclear attack on any country in the world.

Welcome to the future. It took $1.4 billion to build the largest, most revolutionary cruise ship in the world… but will she live up to the hype? Go onboard the Oasis of the Seas for her maiden voyage; the largest, most revolutionary cruise ship on Earth, discover the space-age technologies that help her operate, navigate and entertain 5,000-plus passengers.

This oil and gas pipelayer is as big as an aircraft carrier, 300m (984 foot) long with a state of the art on-board welding factory the size of four city blocks.

She’s the heavy weight champion! The most modern, most powerful multipurpose heavy-lift cargo carrier on Earth! Beluga Bremen is the world’s first multipurpose heavy lift cargo carrier that can hoist more than 1,400 tons of weight! Built by Bremen-based Beluga Shipping, Beluga Bremen is ready in May 2010 for her maiden voyage. It will be a major event since Bremen is the first of sixteen ships in Beluga’s latest generation of super heavy-lift P2 series carriers… the biggest most powerful heavy lifters in the shipping world.