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  2. Seawise Giant - Wikipedia

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    Seawise Giant was featured on the BBC series Jeremy Clarkson's Extreme Machines while sailing as Jahre Viking. According to her captain, S. K. Mohan, the ship could reach up to 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h) in good weather. It took 9 km (5 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles) for the ship to stop from that speed, and the turning circle in clear weather was about 3 km (2 ...

  3. Batillus-class supertanker - Wikipedia

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    The Batillus class had a depth of nearly 36 metres (118 ft 1 in) from the main deck and a full load draft of 28.5 metres (93 ft 6 in), the greatest of any vessel, and slightly greater than the two Globtik Tokyo-class Ultra Large Crude Carriers (ULCCs). Unlike Seawise Giant and most other ULCCs, the Batillus-class vessels had twin propellers ...

  4. Prelude FLNG - Wikipedia

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    Crew: 220-240 [2] Prelude FLNG is a ... tall, and made with more than 260,000 tonnes of steel, beating Seawise Giant ... times the displacement of a Nimitz-class ...

  5. Want to embark on the world's biggest cruise ship? These 10 ...

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    The nearly 1,200-foot ship set sail in January 2024 and accommodates 5,610 guests and 2,350 crew members, according to Royal ... The Seawise Giant continued transporting oil until its final ...

  6. List of longest ships - Wikipedia

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    LNG carrier: 345 m (1,132 ft) 128,900 DWT: 163,922 GT: 2008– In service [72] USS Enterprise: Aircraft carrier: 342 m (1,122 ft) 1961–2013 Retired USS Enterprise, the longest aircraft carrier ever built, was inactivated in December 2012. [73] [74] Paul R. Tregurtha: Lake freighter: 309 m (1,014 ft) 1981– In service

  7. TI-class supertanker - Wikipedia

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    The class were the first ULCCs (ultra-large crude carriers) to be built in 25 years. [ 3 ] By displacement , deadweight tonnage (≈ cargo mass), and gross tonnage (a formula value based on internal volume, not mass), the TI class ships are smaller only than Pioneering Spirit .

  8. List of aircraft carriers operational during World War II

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    Merchant Aircraft Carriers. Britain converted a total of nineteen merchant ships to Merchant Aircraft Carriers during the war. Nine of these were converted Royal Dutch Shell oil tankers, two of which operated under the flag of the Netherlands. [s] All served in the Atlantic theater and typically carried three or four Fairey Swordfish torpedo ...

  9. Modern United States Navy carrier air operations - Wikipedia

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    At "the 90" the aircraft is at 450 feet (140 m), about 1.2 nautical miles (2.2 km; 1.4 mi) from the ship, with 90° of turn to go. The final checkpoint for the pilot is crossing the ship's wake, at which time the aircraft should be approaching final landing heading and around 370 feet (110 m).