Mighty Ships
Mighty Ships

Mighty Ships

2008 10 Seasons 61 Episodes ⭐ 7.5 Documentary

Mighty Ships is a documentary television program produced by Exploration Production Inc. in Canada. It is aired on Discovery Channel Canada and also broadcast around the world. The series follows various types of vessels on a journey, showing viewers how the ship and its crew operates. This series was started after the success of a one off special on the Discovery Channel entitled Mighty Ships: Queen Mary 2.

Mighty Ships is a documentary television program produced by Exploration Production Inc. in Canada. It is aired on Discovery Channel Canada and also broadcast around the world. The series follows various types of vessels on a journey, showing viewers how the ship and its crew operates. This series was started after the success of a one off special on the Discovery Channel entitled Mighty Ships: Queen Mary 2.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Emma Maersk

Step aboard the Emma Maersk for a glimpse at the adventures of the crew on a two-week, 13,000-kilometre crossing from Ma

EP 2

Becrux

Unlike most cruise ships, the Becrux is a mighty ship made for four-legged passengers. With a capacity of nearly 20,000

EP 3

Faust

With the ability to ferry 8,000 luxury cars, heavy trucks and tractors from one continent to another, the Faust is the b

EP 4

CCGS Henry Larsen

Climb aboad the CGCS Henry Larsen as she does an ice patrol around the sub-zero waters of the Notre Dame Bay area of New

EP 5

MV Paul R. Tregurtha

The Paul R. Tregurtha is equipped to deal with the harsh weather conditions of North America's inland seas, but her firs

EP 6

Tyco Resolute

Tyco Resolute has one job: to keep the world wired. She installs and maintains the undersea cables that form the backbon

EP 1

MV Resolution

In the midst of a giant offshore wind farm, a fantastical ship comes to a stop, jacks up on six enormous legs, and plant

EP 2

MV Peace In Africa

Just off the coast of South Africa, a futuristic remote crawler creeps along the ocean floor. Its high tech nozzle is su

EP 3

Akamalik

In a country whose economy is almost 100% based on fishing, Akamalik, the high-tech star of Royal Greenland's trawler fl

EP 4

USS Nimitz

She's the biggest, meanest, most lethal weapon in the arsenal of a global power. The USS Nimitz, like the whole US Navy,

EP 5

HDMS Absalon

HDMS Absalon, one of the most modern warships in the world, has set sail to stop modern-day pirates off the coast of Som

EP 6

MV Fairplayer

If there's a muscleman among ships, then its name is MV Fairplayer. A tour of the Jumbo Fairplayer, the biggest and stro

EP 1

G.O. SARS

G.O. SARS is a new generation of marine research vessel. Her vibration-and noise-damped diesel generators and propellers

EP 2

Africa Mercy

Africa Mercy is the world's largest NGO hospital ship. She travels port to port in the world's poorest regions providing

EP 3

Cristóbal Colón

The Cristobal Colon dredges millions of cubic metres of sand from the seabed for a construction site in Germany.

EP 4

USS Kentucky

An unprecedented look at nuclear-powered submarine USS Kentucky.

EP 5

Oasis of the Seas

The largest and most revolutionary cruise ship on Earth makes her maiden voyage.

EP 6

MV Solitaire

Solitaire is the only ship in the world capable of laying huge 30 inch diameter pipes on the ocean floor. Her crew of 42

EP 1

MV Beluga Bremen

Multipurpose Heavy Lifter MV Beluga Bremen is the world's first multi-purpose, heavy-lift cargo carrier that can hoist

EP 2

USNS Robert E. Peary

T-AKE Military Supply Ship USNS Robert E. Peary is a T-AKE 5 supply ship, built for 21st century warfare; join Peary on

EP 3

DSV Skandi Arctic

Saturation Dive Support Ship DSV Skandi Arctic is the biggest and newest saturation dive support ship, the mother ship

EP 4

MS Stena Britannica

Super Ferry Stena Britannica is a car carrier, passenger ferry, cargo transport and cruise ship all rolled into one; wa

EP 5

USCGC Bertholf

USCGC Bertholf was built for U.S. Homeland Security to patrol the high seas, looking for drugs, weapons, human trafficki

EP 6

CCGS Amundsen

Research Icebreaker Canadian Coast Guard Ship Amundsen is a research icebreaker who job is to battle Arctic extremes to

EP 1

Norwegian Epic

The Norwegian Epic is a billion-dollar showboat with more than 20 bars and restaurants and pool decks that transform int

EP 2

North Star

The Roll-On/Roll-Off (Ro-Ro) ship North Star is one of the only links between Alaska and the continental U.S. So far thi

EP 3

Le Boreal

Le Boreal is as sleek and nimble as a yacht, with the luxurious appointments and service of a cruise ship. She's also to

EP 4

FPSO Maersk Peregrino

The FPSO Maersk Peregrino is the world's biggest oil production ship and is permanently hooked up at the Peregrino oil f

EP 5

Umiak I

Umiak I is the world's most powerful ice-breaking carrier, hauling mining equipment from Quebec City to Labrador and ret

EP 6

USS Gravely

The U.S. Navy's newest ship, a guided missile destroyer, goes through testing with its crew in preparation for deploymen

EP 1

MV Stornes

She's brand-new and about to make history. The Dutch company Van Oord has just received its new fallpipe vessel called S

EP 2

USNS Grasp

She's the "Swiss Army Knife" of the US Navy. Recovery of downed aircraft, towing of sunken vessels, or clearing of debri

EP 3

Crystal Serenity

Consistently voted the world's top cruise ship by Condé Nast, Crystal Serenity is full of luxuries. She features contem

EP 4

USS New York

With 7.5 tons of steel salvaged from the wreckage of the Twin Towers forming her bow stem, USS New York is tribute to th

EP 5

Northern Eagle

She's an all-in-one mega fishing trawler and factory. Northern Eagle can catch and package fish at the same time. She cr

EP 6

Neptune

Purpose-built to install the world's most powerful wind turbines. Imagine a ship that can raise herself up 15 metres (5

EP 1

Norwegian Breakaway: The Build

For the first time, our crews venture inside a shipyard to follow the construction of the world's newest mega-cruiser fr

EP 2

Norwegian Breakaway: The Voyage

The world's newest mega-cruiser has only 48 hours before she departs on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic, readying

EP 3

Wind Surf

She is the largest sailing yacht in the world, a sleek, five-masted luxury sailing yacht that's large enough to pamper a

EP 4

Avataq

The Avataq is a lifeline to Canada's near-Arctic communities, carrying everything from food and furniture to mining equi

EP 5

Ibn Battuta

Ibn Battuta is one of the strongest dredgers of her type. With a powerful spinning cutter head and a pair of heavy-duty

EP 6

Stemat Spirit

Other cable laying vessels require a second vessel to transport one end of their cables to shore. Stemat Spirit approach

EP 7

The Best of Mighty Ships

Over seven seasons, Mighty Ships has featured 42 of the biggest, most technologically advanced on the planet. This speci

EP 1

Quantum of the Seas

The world’s most innovative cruise ship sails from New York to the Caribbean on her maiden voyage, facing off against

EP 2

Hawk

To transport one of the world's largest oil rigs around the world, Hawk has to sink before she swims. To load, she sinks

EP 3

Happy Star

This episode follows Happy Star during her second - challenging - voyage from Nansha, China, to Sept Isles, Canada and p

EP 4

Algoma Equinox

She is built to haul more cargo faster, using less fuel than any other Laker. On this voyage she transports grain across

EP 5

HDMS Peter Willemoes

HDMS Peter Willemoes is a Royal Danish warship built for 21st century combat, equipped with sophisticated detection syst

EP 6

Maersk Interceptor

A large storm hits the drilling rig out on the North Sea.

EP 1

North Sea Giant

With a specialized crane system and five propellers to counter heavy seas, North Sea Giant can perform powerful and prec

EP 2

Tønsberg

Tønsberg carries anything that can be rolled up her ramp: not just automobiles and bulldozers, but also heavy, awkward-

EP 3

USNS Comfort

Almost three football fields long, the USNS Comfort is second in size only to U.S. Navy aircraft carriers. She is the la

EP 4

Northern Leader

Northern Leader is Alaska’s biggest and toughest longliner. Catching fish with hooks, not nets, she sends out 80 kilo

EP 5

Maersk Viking

One of the world’s most advanced drill ships builds an oil well more than 2000 metres below the waterline in the Gulf

EP 6

Fram

The world’s most adventurous cruise ship fights through the ice-choked fjords of Greenland to visit a spectacular coll

EP 1

Norrona

Noronna ferries passengers, vehicles and millions-dollar cargo to Iceland and the Faroe Islands

EP 2

MSC Oscar

One of the world’s largest container ships races from port to port in China, Malaysia and Germany, transporting almost

EP 3

MSC Meraviglia

MSC’s biggest cruise ship navigates tight Mediterranean harbors, offering a brand new water park, classic excursions a

EP 4

Yasin Bey

Powership Yasin Bey is built to sail anywhere and deliver badly-needed electricity. The ship’s first-ever voyage star

EP 5

Sapura 3500

Off the coast of Malaysia, Sapura 3500 lays a pipeline and builds an offshore gas platform in just three weeks.

EP 6

Edda Freya

With specialized cranes and underwater robots, Edda Freya repairs and replaces critical pipelines running to an oil and

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