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TT Seawise Giant—earlier Oppama; later Happy Giant, Jahre Viking, Knock Nevis, and Mont—was a ULCC supertanker and the longest self-propelled ship in history. It was built in 1974–1979 by Sumitomo Heavy Industries in Yokosuka , Kanagawa , Japan.
Name Length overall DWT GT/GRT In service Status Notes 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 ship ever by length, displacement (657,019 tonnes), and deadweight tonnage.
English: The tanker Seawise Giant during its reparations at Hitachi shipyard of Singapore on December 27, 1990 after being hit by Iraqi Exocet during the Iran- Iraq war. Français : Le pétrolier Seawise Giant pendant ses réparations au chantiers navals Hitachi shipyard de Singapour le 27 décembre 1990 après avoir été heurté par un Exocet ...
All four oil tankers were constructed for shipping company Hellespont Group by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in Okpo, South Korea, entering service between March 2002 and April 2003.
Length overall was 414.22 m (1,359 ft 0 in), beam 63.05 m (206 ft 10 in), draft 28.60 m (93 ft 10 in), deadweight tonnage 555,046 (however, if she were loaded to the same freeboard as the Seawise Giant, at 233 tons/cm., [7] her deadweight tonnage would have been on the order of 604,000 tonnes, unrivaled in maritime history), and gross tonnage 274,826.
The Batillus was a supertanker built in 1976 by Chantiers de l'Atlantique at Saint-Nazaire for the French branch of Shell Oil.The first vessel of the Batillus class, she was, together with her sister ships Bellamya, Pierre Guillaumat and Prairial, one of the biggest ships in the world, surpassed in size only by Seawise Giant [10] [11] (later Jahre Viking, Happy Giant and Knock Nevis) built in ...
I spent three nights on Royal Caribbean's new giant cruise ship, Utopia of the Seas. The cruise line's second-largest vessel is operating short voyages to attract new cruisers. The new ship has ...
Today, Sumitomo Heavy Industries manufactures injection molding machines, laser systems, semiconductor machinery and liquid crystal production machinery. In 1979, the company famously built the Seawise Giant , an Ultra Large Crude Carrier (ULCC) supertanker ; the longest ship ever built.