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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

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    Mighty Ships Season 1 Episode 5 - MV Paul R. Tregurtha
    8.8/10(10 votes)

    #1 - MV Paul R. Tregurtha

    S1:E5

    The Paul R. Tregurtha is equipped to deal with the harsh weather conditions of North America's inland seas, but her first mission of the shipping season will push the vessel, and her crew, to their limits. Hop aboard the "Queen of the Lakes" as she attempts to deliver a much-needed 55,000-ton coal supply to a generating plant in Michigan. To get there, she must break through a barricade of ice and pass a shallow passage with just two feet of water beneath her keel. If the captain and crew aren't careful, they could find themselves stopped dead cold.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Mighty Ships Season 9 Episode 4 - Northern Leader
    8.5/10(8 votes)

    #2 - Northern Leader

    S9:E4

    Northern Leader is Alaska’s biggest and toughest longliner. Catching fish with hooks, not nets, she sends out 80 kilometres of fishing line containing 76,000 hooks. In the heart of the Bering Sea, her crew battles a hurricane with 13 metre-high waves and winds of more than 110 kilometres per hour. All the while, this 56-metre ship keeps fishing – bringing home a massive catch of Pacific Cod – until one deckhand working is washed out by a powerful wave.

    Director:Unknown
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  3. Mighty Ships Season 6 Episode 4 - USS New York
    8.2/10(8 votes)

    #3 - USS New York

    S6:E4

    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, 2001. 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  4. Mighty Ships Season 2 Episode 4 - USS Nimitz
    8.0/10(6 votes)

    #4 - USS Nimitz

    S2:E4

    She's the biggest, meanest, most lethal weapon in the arsenal of a global power. The USS Nimitz, like the whole US Navy, has to be ready for any mission, anywhere in the world. That's why she undergoes a rigorous - and often dangerous - evaluation before every deployment.

    Director:Unknown
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  5. Mighty Ships Season 3 Episode 6 - MV Solitaire
    8.0/10(8 votes)

    #5 - MV Solitaire

    S3:E6

    Solitaire is the only ship in the world capable of laying huge 30 inch diameter pipes on the ocean floor. Her crew of 420 work 24/7 and can lay down 9km of pipeline a day. Led by a vessel management team, the crew is made up of mariners and welders from all over the world.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Mighty Ships Season 8 Episode 4 - Algoma Equinox
    8.0/10(8 votes)

    #6 - Algoma Equinox

    S8:E4

    She is built to haul more cargo faster, using less fuel than any other Laker. On this voyage she transports grain across the world's largest inland waterway.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Mighty Ships Season 9 Episode 6 - Fram
    8.0/10(9 votes)

    #7 - Fram

    S9:E6

    The world’s most adventurous cruise ship fights through the ice-choked fjords of Greenland to visit a spectacular collection of wildlife and icebergs.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Mighty Ships Season 4 Episode 2 - USNS Robert E. Peary
    7.9/10(10 votes)

    #8 - USNS Robert E. Peary

    S4:E2

    T-AKE Military Supply Ship USNS Robert E. Peary is a T-AKE 5 supply ship, built for 21st century warfare; join Peary on active deployment in the hot zone of the Gulf of Aden, replenishing a fleet of 20 warships.

    Director:Unknown
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  9. Mighty Ships Season 3 Episode 2 - Africa Mercy
    7.8/10(6 votes)

    #9 - Africa Mercy

    S3:E2

    Africa Mercy is the world's largest NGO hospital ship. She travels port to port in the world's poorest regions providing medical care to people who may have never met a doctor or visited a hospital. 150m long and equipped with six state-of-the-art operating theatres, Africa Mercy can deliver medical care as good as any big city hospital in North America.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Mighty Ships Season 3 Episode 4 - USS Kentucky
    7.8/10(8 votes)

    #10 - USS Kentucky

    S3:E4

    An unprecedented look at nuclear-powered submarine USS Kentucky.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Mighty Ships Season 4 Episode 1 - MV Beluga Bremen
    7.8/10(8 votes)

    #11 - MV Beluga Bremen

    S4:E1

    Multipurpose Heavy Lifter MV Beluga Bremen is the world's first multi-purpose, heavy-lift cargo carrier that can hoist more than 1,400 tons; travel with her on her maiden voyage to transport two 820-tonne mining autoclaves to the Dominican Republic.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Mighty Ships Season 5 Episode 2 - North Star
    7.8/10(10 votes)

    #12 - North Star

    S5:E2

    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 this winter, her captain, Richard Cadigan, has delivered everything from food to building supplies to pickup trucks from Seattle to Anchorage on time - within a short 72-hour window.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Mighty Ships Season 7 Episode 3 - Wind Surf
    7.8/10(8 votes)

    #13 - Wind Surf

    S7:E3

    She is the largest sailing yacht in the world, a sleek, five-masted luxury sailing yacht that's large enough to pamper and yet small enough to tuck into tiny harbors and hidden coves where no one else can go.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Mighty Ships Season 1 Episode 1 - Emma Maersk
    7.7/10(13 votes)

    #14 - Emma Maersk

    S1:E1

    Step aboard the Emma Maersk for a glimpse at the adventures of the crew on a two-week, 13,000-kilometre crossing from Malaysia to Spain. At 20 storeys tall, this ship is capable of carrying millions of dollars worth of cargo.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Mighty Ships Season 1 Episode 3 - Faust
    7.7/10(9 votes)

    #15 - Faust

    S1:E3

    With the ability to ferry 8,000 luxury cars, heavy trucks and tractors from one continent to another, the Faust is the biggest and the newest ocean faring vehicle carrier on the planet.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Mighty Ships Season 2 Episode 6 - MV Fairplayer
    7.7/10(6 votes)

    #16 - MV Fairplayer

    S2:E6

    If there's a muscleman among ships, then its name is MV Fairplayer. A tour of the Jumbo Fairplayer, the biggest and strongest in a new class of heavy-lift mega ships.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. Mighty Ships Season 10 Episode 4 - Yasin Bey
    7.7/10(10 votes)

    #17 - Yasin Bey

    S10:E4

    Powership Yasin Bey is built to sail anywhere and deliver badly-needed electricity. The ship’s first-ever voyage starts with Yasin Bey limping back to the shipyard - tilting to the side so much that it feels as if the ship will keel over.

    Director:Unknown
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  18. Mighty Ships Season 3 Episode 5 - Oasis of the Seas
    7.6/10(14 votes)

    #18 - Oasis of the Seas

    S3:E5

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Mighty Ships Season 4 Episode 5 - USCGC Bertholf
    7.6/10(9 votes)

    #19 - USCGC Bertholf

    S4:E5

    USCGC Bertholf was built for U.S. Homeland Security to patrol the high seas, looking for drugs, weapons, human trafficking, piracy and traditional search-and-rescue missions; join her on patrol in the dangerous waters off Colombia.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Mighty Ships Season 1 Episode 6 - Tyco Resolute
    7.5/10(6 votes)

    #20 - Tyco Resolute

    S1:E6

    Tyco Resolute has one job: to keep the world wired. She installs and maintains the undersea cables that form the backbone of the Internet, and right now she needs to connect a nation in need of a 21st-century upgrade. Hop aboard as she lays fiber optic cables off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, a mission that's anything but simple. Malfunctioning cables and equipment, pounding surf, and low tides have put Tyco Resolute way behind schedule. If she doesn't pick up the pace, the entire mission will be in jeopardy.

    Director:Unknown
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  21. Mighty Ships Season 3 Episode 1 - G.O. SARS
    7.4/10(8 votes)

    #21 - G.O. SARS

    S3:E1

    G.O. SARS is a new generation of marine research vessel. Her vibration-and noise-damped diesel generators and propellers driven by direct current motors, emits 99% less noise than any other conventional ship. They offer scientists unprecedented access to the life in the world's oceans.

    Director:Unknown
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  22. Mighty Ships Season 6 Episode 3 - Crystal Serenity
    7.4/10(5 votes)

    #22 - Crystal Serenity

    S6:E3

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Mighty Ships Season 7 Episode 5 - Ibn Battuta
    7.4/10(5 votes)

    #23 - Ibn Battuta

    S7:E5

    Ibn Battuta is one of the strongest dredgers of her type. With a powerful spinning cutter head and a pair of heavy-duty cylinders called "spuds," She is capable of breaking up the hardest sub-sea soil. The spuds brace the ship in position while the cutter head's teeth grind away at the sea floor to deepen the Son Duong Port in Vietnam's poorest province.

    Director:Unknown
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  24. Mighty Ships Season 9 Episode 3 - USNS Comfort
    7.4/10(5 votes)

    #24 - USNS Comfort

    S9:E3

    Almost three football fields long, the USNS Comfort is second in size only to U.S. Navy aircraft carriers. She is the largest hospital ship on the planet, with up to 1,200 crew, 12 operating rooms, 1,000 beds, and an impressive array of medical equipment. MIGHTY SHIPS joins the USNS Comfort midway through “Operation Continuing Promise” – a six-month mission to provide humanitarian aid to 11 countries in the Caribbean and Latin America. Sailing to the tiny Caribbean island of Dominica, Comfort’s crew sets out to aid 10,000 patients in just nine days.

    Director:Karen Pinker
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Mighty Ships Season 8 Episode 1 - Quantum of the Seas
    7.3/10(9 votes)

    #25 - Quantum of the Seas

    S8:E1

    The world’s most innovative cruise ship sails from New York to the Caribbean on her maiden voyage, facing off against technical glitches and challenging weather.

    Director:Unknown
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Best Episodes Summary

"MV Paul R. Tregurtha" is the best rated episode of "Mighty Ships". It scored 8.8/10 based on 10 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 8/19/2008. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Northern Leader".