The Most Powerful Tugboats Ever Made: This is The Largest Tug Supply vessels in the World

A few notes on origins: At 0:02 the vessel Alp Striker and at 5:33 the Alp Keeper are both designed by Ulstein Design & Solutions AS in Norway, thus not designed in the United States, as claimed in the video on the second. You can see from afar that this is a vessel designed in Norway, e.g. by its distinct X-Bow. At 1:01 the Esvagt Innovator, with all the huge Turkish flags, is another Norwegian originated ship, designed by Havyard Ship Design in Norway. And at 6:11, the Canadian AHTS-vessel (built as Ice class 1B, strengthened to class 1A) Horizon Arctic also has Norwegian origin, designed and built for Bourbon Offshore Norway AS by Vard Brattvaag, on the west coast of Norway. Sailed in Norwegian waters for seven years, and just recently (2023) relocated to Canada. At 9:19 the Olympic Energy is another Vard designed and built vessel, a Platform Supply Vessel (not a tugboat) of b.y. 2012 at Vard Aukra Norway, which origins wasn't mentioned. At 10:58 the Maersk Master is an AHTS-vessel designed by Salt Ship Design AS in Norway, and built by Kleven in Norway. And Skandi Iceman at 11:59 is yet another vessel by Vard in Norway (...and those 7 are just a few, as I just skipped quickly through this video). Demographics: if you study this in more detail, you will see that a surprisingly large share of these ships (including all 7 ships mentioned) are all designed, built and/or outfitted - not only in Norway - but more specifically by the population of less than 250.000 people of Møre, a small geographic region immediately north of the west cape of Norway. The shipbuilders are descendants of the most ocean-crossing people of the Viking age. (Etymology of Møre: from Old Norse, similar to the word 'mare' in Latin, means ocean).

Such maritime technological prowess can only be applauded and broadly praised.Countries building beautiful, powerful tug boats 🚢 of this kind should have crossed the line of metal industry's skilfulness,proficiency and potentially, nice content😎👍

The lady speaks on that frequency that goes in one ear and out the other.

I have chartered a number of these vessels for our rig move operations in the North Sea and they are truly wonderful machines to work with. The crews are of such a high standard, they really bring the best out of the vessels. 👍

Impressive! These innovations redefine what's possible.

Beautiful ships . My Grandson worked on rescue and recovery vessels on the North Sea for a couple of years. They were no where near as large as these great ships, tho in there own right are of fantastic design too.

These ships are straight out of a Chris Foss sketchbook. Awesome.

Awesome, thanks for this first class video.

Enjoyed the video start/finish..Excellent IOM(UK)

I really like the AHTS ships there versatility is great and the look awesome. Would love to work on one.

Thank you for the good video!!! I have wondered how some of these ships work in the real world…. They are an amazing machine!!!

fantastic ships. would love to see the engine rooms.

She is butiful, love the modern design lines of this vessel, so nice .... Thom in Scotland.

”Dearest miss Pette” Sounded like she was reading the start of a letter or diary for us

Nice video, but sad with the computer generated comments... .....with a lot of faulty information. Most of the vessels have Norwegian origin, either by design, build, order or ownership. The x-bow design is Norwegian, and as some in the comments feels it looks unstable, the design has clear advantages in rough sea and is absolutely not unstable. There is so much weight in the keel, that these ships is probably the correct place to be if hit by a tsunami or the "hundred-year-swell".

Those are the most beautiful ships 🚢 ever built

Good info! Thank you!

Increíble!! Me encanta el video!

This is my world thank you very much,

I love the fact that I don't know much of anything about ship design, because I'm certain that if I DID I wouldn't have the same sense of wonder when I see the myriad strange shapes that different ships require, for the tasks they perform. THESE ships don't look stable to me! Beautiful to see! 🙂