The ship, a semi-submersible heavy-lift ship at the time, was christened sometime in 1981 with the name Dan Lifter and was sent into service with Frigg Shipping Ltd. in 1982. A year later, it recovered RFASir Tristram after the Falklands War. In 1985, it was acquired by Wijsmuller Transport with the name Super Servant 5 to move oil platforms. It stayed with Wijsmuller for ten years, before being transferred to Gulf South Shipping, who passed the recently renamed Bali Sea to CG Railway. It operated as a rail ferry between Coatzacoalcos in Mexico and Mobile, Alabama, on a 900-mile (1,400km) route, carrying a maximum of 115 rail cars.[3] In 2019, Bali Sea was showing its age. As a result, new ferries were ordered from China, both of which arrived in 2021.[2] With the arrival of the first, MV Cherokee, Bali Sea was renamed Bala, sailed to Nhava Sheva, and decommissioned.[4]
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