An curved arrow pointing right. When a ship is damaged and needs to travel for repairs, the US Navy will contract a heavy-lift vessel to collect and transport it. More from Military & Defense When ...

Heavy-lift barges are used to both transport the equipment offshore and lift it into place via powerful cranes. With lifting capacities greater than 10,000 tons, heavy lift cranes are many times ...

Its title was quite appropriate as on both sides of many of their ships’ accommodation blocks/navigating bridges/wheelhouses there was painted a large white whale’s tail on a blue background.

and the twin hulls can be separated to create a pair of heavy lift/transport platforms, each with a 2,000-ton capacity and capable of fully independent operation. All the constituent parts of ...

1382 km The MH-47 Chinook and its “E,” “D” and “G” variants are the primary heavy lift transport helicopters for the U.S. Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment.