The Vanguard will have 50% greater lifting capacity and 70% greater deck area than the largest heavy lift ship now in service, theBlue Marlin, also owned by Dockwise, which can lift 73, 000 tonnes.
Research director Jaime Jahncke said the number of blue and others whales is four to five times greater than in 2004, increasing the likelihood of ship strikes.
Played by Matt Smith, he journeys through "Time And Relative Dimension In Space" in his aptly-named ship, the TARDIS -- which looks like a blue British police call box on the outside, and is as iconographic a vehicle as the U.S.S. Enterprise, Millennium Falcon or DeLorean.