The WORST episodes of Mighty Ships
Every episode of Mighty Ships ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Mighty Ships!
Featuring stunning visuals from aboard these mighty vessels, it explores the mechanics of the actual ships and the intricate relationships of those aboard. Meet the crew and staff who navigate these ships and find out what makes their jobs so unique and challenging.
#1 - Edda Freya
Season 10 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/14/2018
With specialized cranes and underwater robots, Edda Freya repairs and replaces critical pipelines running to an oil and gas platform.
Watch Now:Amazon
#2 - Northern Leader
Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/22/2016
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.
Watch Now:Amazon
#3 - Fram
Season 9 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/5/2016
The world’s most adventurous cruise ship fights through the ice-choked fjords of Greenland to visit a spectacular collection of wildlife and icebergs.
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Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/26/2015
This episode follows Happy Star during her second - challenging - voyage from Nansha, China, to Sept Isles, Canada and provides an insight into the ship and its crew.
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#5 - HDMS Peter Willemoes
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/9/2015
HDMS Peter Willemoes is a Royal Danish warship built for 21st century combat, equipped with sophisticated detection systems and powerful weapons. But before her crew can take her out to sea, they've got to prove they have what it takes to fight off enemy threats. Enter restricted waters and witness the series of intense battle simulation exercises her sailors must pass in order to join the multinational NATO Response Force. The stakes are high, but fortunately, they have one of the world's most advanced frigates on their side
#6 - MSC Meraviglia
Season 10 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/17/2017
MSC’s biggest cruise ship navigates tight Mediterranean harbors, offering a brand new water park, classic excursions and Cirque du Soleil at Sea
Watch Now:Amazon
#7 - Yasin Bey
Season 10 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/7/2018
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.
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#8 - Tønsberg
Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/8/2016
Tønsberg carries anything that can be rolled up her ramp: not just automobiles and bulldozers, but also heavy, awkward-sized cargo such as cranes, subway trains, or yachts. In some of the busiest ro-ro ports in Europe, Tønsberg’s crew rushes to overcome the obstacles that could delay her. Sailing across the Atlantic, two storms threaten to cross her path as the crew keeps a sharp eye on the lashings that hold the cargo in place.
#9 - Maersk Viking
Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/29/2016
One of the world’s most advanced drill ships builds an oil well more than 2000 metres below the waterline in the Gulf of Mexico.
Watch Now:Amazon#10 - Maersk Interceptor
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/19/2015
A large storm hits the drilling rig out on the North Sea.
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#11 - MSC Oscar
Season 10 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/10/2017
One of the world’s largest container ships races from port to port in China, Malaysia and Germany, transporting almost 20,000 crates of cargo.
Watch Now:Amazon
#12 - Quantum of the Seas
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/19/2015
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.
Watch Now:Amazon
#13 - USNS Comfort
Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/15/2016
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.
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Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/19/2015
To transport one of the world's largest oil rigs around the world, Hawk has to sink before she swims. To load, she sinks down in the water, submerging her expansive deck.
Watch Now:Amazon
#15 - Norrona
Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/3/2017
Noronna ferries passengers, vehicles and millions-dollar cargo to Iceland and the Faroe Islands
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Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/2/2015
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.
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Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/1/2016
With a specialized crane system and five propellers to counter heavy seas, North Sea Giant can perform powerful and precise lifts in seas as high as 4.5 metres – four times the capability of other such vessels. On this voyage, she’s out to lift and install the final massive module of the world’s first subsea gas compression station nearly 300 metres underwater. But when strong winds and currents threaten the delicate operation, her team of underwater robots must come to the rescue before the module crashes the entire project!
Watch Now:Amazon
#19 - MV Becrux
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/30/2008
Unlike most cruise ships, the Becrux is a mighty ship made for four-legged passengers. With a capacity of nearly 20,000 cattle or 60,000 sheep, the Becrux is the largest custom-built livestock carrier in the world.
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#20 - Le Boreal
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/3/2011
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
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#21 - USCGC Bertholf
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/13/2011
Loaded with chase boats, high-tech weaponry, and a helicopter gunship, the U.S. Coast Guard ship Cutter Bertholf is America's latest weapon in the war on drugs. Bertholf is the first of eight Legend Class ships built for homeland security. Join her and her crew as they patrol the dangerous waters of the eastern Pacific off the coast of Colombia. Hunting for drugs, weapons, human trafficking and other suspicious activity is one mighty assignment, but this maritime super-cop is fully equipped for the task.
#22 - Crystal Serenity
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/8/2012
Consistently voted the world's top cruise ship by Condé Nast, Crystal Serenity features contemporary suites, dining by the likes of Nobu, and even penthouse suites with a full-service butler.
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#23 - MV Peace In Africa
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/5/2009
Just off the coast of South Africa, a futuristic remote crawler creeps along the ocean floor. Its high tech nozzle is sucking up seabed gravel that's full of diamonds, and hoovering them up to the mother ship on the surface - MV Peace in Africa - the world's biggest underwater mining vessel.
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#24 - Norwegian Epic
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/20/2011
The Norwegian Epic is a billion-dollar showboat with more than 20 bars and restaurants and pool decks that transform into nightclubs.
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#25 - MV Stornes
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/25/2012
This ship deploys a fall-pipe that reaches the seafloor; rocks are loaded into the pipe and "fall" down to the bottom, hence the term "fall-pipe". The rocks provide foundations and protection for pipelines that are laid on the ocean floor.
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