The TT Seawise Giant—earlier Oppama; later Happy Giant, Jahre Viking, Knock Nevis, and Mont—was a ULCC supertanker and the longest self-propelled ship...
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Seawise is a name associated with Chinese-Hong Kong shipping magnate Tung Chao-yung. It is a pun on his abbreviated name "C. Y. Tung." Seawise Giant, a...
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Batillus-class supertanker (redirect from Sea Giant (ship))
measuring deadweight tonnage or length overall, behind only the supertanker Seawise Giant (renamed five times, including to Knock Nevis), which existed from 1979...
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Steam-powered vessel (section Seawise Giant)
struck an iceberg and took on water, killing over 1,500 people. The Seawise Giant supertanker was the largest steam-powered ship ever created and the...
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infrastructure to export oil. FPSOs can be a conversion of an oil tanker (like Seawise Giant) or can be a vessel built specially for the application. A vessel used...
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by the end of 2010. In December 2009, the longest ship ever built, Seawise Giant, was broken up at Alang. In August 2012, Oriental Nicety, famous for...
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(1986) and Sea Giant (1997). She is also distinguished as the third biggest ship ever constructed, surpassed in size only by Seawise Giant (later Jahre...
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Image Ref Seawise Giant 458.46 m (1,504 ft) 564,650 DWT 260,851 GT 1979–2009 Broken up Originally smaller, jumboisation made Seawise Giant the largest...
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including above-deck containers. The previous largest ship, the supertanker Seawise Giant, was dismantled in 2010. All four oil tankers were constructed for shipping...
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conception, from power plants to vehicles as large as the supertanker Seawise Giant. The turbine was invented circa 1908 by the Swedish brothers Birger...
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(344 ft) tall and made with more than 260,000 tonnes of steel, beating Seawise Giant (the previous record holder) as the world's longest vessel. The vessel...
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Breaking Yard Chittagong Ship Breaking Yard Aliağa Ship Breaking Yard "FSX Seawise Giant Ultra Tanker". Fly Away Simulation. Archived from the original on 9...
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biggest ships in the world, surpassed in size only by Seawise Giant (later Jahre Viking, Happy Giant and Knock Nevis) built in 1976, and extended in 1981...
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crystal production machinery. In 1979, the company famously built the Seawise Giant, an Ultra Large Crude Carrier (ULCC) supertanker; the longest ship ever...
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break up". The Economist. 27 October 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2013. "FSX Seawise Giant Ultra Tanker". Fly Away Simulation. Retrieved 2021-07-09. "India plans...
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full load draft, could not navigate the English Channel. Seawise Giant was renamed Happy Giant in 1989, Jahre Viking in 1991, and Knock Nevis in 2004 (when...
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vessel in the world, a ULCC supertanker formerly known as Jahre Viking (Seawise Giant). It has a deadweight of 565,000 metric tons and length of about 458...
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Camille Montagne (1784-1866), French military physician and botanist Seawise Giant, the largest ship in the world, later renamed MV Mont for her final...
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Shipwrecks 16 Feb: Sol Phryne 19 Apr: Sahand 26 Apr: Reijin 14 May: Seawise Giant 20 May: Korean Star 16 Jun: Swiftsure 4 Jul: Singa Sea 23 Jul: USS Jonas...
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biggest ships in the world, surpassed in size only by Seawise Giant (later Jahre Viking, Happy Giant and Knock Nevis) built in 1976, and extended in 1981...
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hold, or a group of cabins, depending on the type of ship. The tanker Seawise Giant became the largest ship in the world after her jumboization. Smaller...
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– via www.wired.com. "F60 - The bridge in detail". F60. "Bagger 288 – a giant among bucket wheel excavators". thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions product...
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longest ships ever constructed. From top to bottom: Knock Nevis (ex-Seawise Giant), Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller, Vale Brasil, Allure of the Seas, and...
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of the world's top seven shipping lines. At one stage it owned the Seawise Giant, the largest ship ever built, having bought it from the shipyard when...
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1987-10-05 Brazil Star Panama 77294/72 Iraqi a/c minor damage 1987-10-05 Seawise Giant Liberia 238558/76 Iraqi a/c minor damage 1987-10-05 Shining Star Cyprus...
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Guillaumat 274,838 Scrapped Cie Nationale de Nav Prairial Scrapped Seawise Giant - Supertanker 458.45 m (1,504.1 ft) 68.80 m (225.7 ft) 24.61 m (80.7 ft)...
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A side view of the proposed Freedom Ship. The largest ship built in the world, the Seawise Giant, was approximately one quarter of this length....
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Shipwrecks 16 Feb: Sol Phryne 19 Apr: Sahand 26 Apr: Reijin 14 May: Seawise Giant 20 May: Korean Star 16 Jun: Swiftsure 4 Jul: Singa Sea 23 Jul: USS Jonas...
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Yamato, 863 feet, 263 m Empire State Building, 1,454 feet, 443 m Knock Nevis, ex-Seawise Giant, 1,503 feet, 458 m Apple Park, 1,522 feet, 464 m...
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Deborah Snow (21 February 2007). "Sydney in meltdown as hordes crowd to see giant ships". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 26 November 2009. Super ships choke...
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