MV Target
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=Target p1 03-05-08.jpg |Ship caption=MV Target carrying an unnamed load. }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=Norway |Ship flag=File:Flag of Norway.svg |Ship name=*Jahre Target
|Ship owner=initially Park Venture Co. |Ship operator= |Ship ordered= |Ship awarded= |Ship builder=Brodosplit, Split, Croatia (Yugoslavia) |Ship yard number=361 |Ship laid down= |Ship launched=29 July 1989 |Ship sponsor= |Ship christened= |Ship completed=February 1990 |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned= |Ship recommissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship renamed= |Ship reclassified= |Ship refit= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship homeport=Sandefjord |Ship motto= |Ship nickname= |Ship honours= |Ship captured= |Ship fate=Sold 2007 |Ship notes= |Ship badge= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header=title |Ship country=Netherlands Antilles |Ship flag= File:Flag of the Netherlands Antilles (1986–2010).svg |Ship name=MV Target |Ship operator=File:Dockwise flag.svg Dockwise |Ship completed=24 December 2007 |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned= |Ship recommissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship renamed= |Ship reclassified= |Ship refit= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship homeport=Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles |Ship motto= |Ship nickname= |Ship honours= |Ship captured= |Ship identification=*{{IMO|8617938}}
|Ship status={{Ship in active service}} |Ship notes= |Ship badge= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship type=semi-submersible heavy-load carrier |Ship tonnage=*{{DWT|142031}}
|Ship displacement= |Ship length=*{{convert|269|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
|Ship beam= {{convert|44.5|m|ftin|abbr=on}} |Ship height= |Ship draught= |Ship hold depth= |Ship propulsion= |Ship speed={{convert|14|kn|lk=in}} |Ship range= |Ship endurance= |Ship boats= |Ship capacity= |Ship complement= |Ship crew= |Ship troops= |Ship sensors= |Ship EW= |Ship notes= }} |
MV Target is a semi-submersible heavy transport ship, built by Brodosplit in Yugoslavia.
History
Built in 1990 as a tanker, MV Jahre Target,{{csr|register=MSI|id=8617938}} MV Target is the second of six single hull tankers to be converted into heavy lift vessels. After completing submerging and sea trials, the former sealift vessel was delivered to the new owners, Dockwise on 24 December 2007.{{cite web| url=http://www2.dockwise.com/vessels/node/339| title=MV Target| publisher=Dockwise| accessdate=6 November 2009| url-status=dead| archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130122011635/http://www2.dockwise.com/vessels/node/339| archivedate=22 January 2013}}
Design
Service
MV Target is designed to transport complex, high-value cargo, including semi-submersible and jack-up drilling units, as well as offshore structures. She is managed by Anglo-Eastern Ship Management who provide technical and crew management.
In 2009, MV Target transported the Royal Navy ice-strengthened survey ship, {{HMS|Endurance|A171|6}} from the Falkland Islands to Portsmouth.{{cite news| url=http://www2.dockwise.com/files/images/Falkland_Islands_Adventure_for_Dockwise.pdf| title=Falkland Islands Adventure for Dockwise| publisher=Dockwise| date=11 February 2009| accessdate=7 November 2009| url-status=dead| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006060816/http://www2.dockwise.com/files/images/Falkland_Islands_Adventure_for_Dockwise.pdf| archivedate=6 October 2011}}