[2] MPI Resolution is a 14,857 GT vessel which has six legs that she can use to raise itself out of the sea when installing offshore wind turbines.
The whole ship can be jacked up out of the sea on her six legs, to provide a stable platform when installing wind turbines.
[3] On arrival at the site of the wind turbine, MPI Resolution lowers her six legs to stand on the seabed, and then jacks herself up above the surface of the sea.
This provides a stable platform to hammer down a mono-pile into the sea bed and install the wind turbine.
[2] The addition of a remotely operated vehicle to lay submarine cables pushed to final bill for her construction to £53,000,000.
She was due to depart for Great Yarmouth on 8 April to work on installing turbines for the Scroby Sands wind farm.
[16] In 2010, Resolution was employed in the construction of the 100-turbine Thanet wind farm, off the coast of Kent, United Kingdom,[17] sometimes carrying and installing 9 complete turbines.