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  2. List of largest ships by gross tonnage - Wikipedia

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    Crane vessel: 382 m (1,253 ft) 124 m (407 ft) 10–15 m (33–49 ft) 403,342 In service Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering: Allseas [1] Prelude FLNG - Floating production storage and offloading: 488 m (1,601 ft) 74 m (243 ft) 17 m (56 ft) 300,000 In service Samsung Heavy Industries: Shell plc [2] Bellamya: Batillus class: Supertanker

  3. List of largest container ships - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of container ships with a capacity larger than 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU).. Container ships have been built in increasingly larger sizes to take advantage of economies of scale and reduce expense as part of intermodal freight transport.

  4. List of ship types - Wikipedia

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    Naval vessel able to launch and retrieve airplanes Amphibious warfare ship vessels of various sizes for landing personnel and vehicles Aviso (Spanish, French or Portuguese) Originally a dispatch boat, later applied to ships equivalent to the Royal Navy sloop Barque A sailing vessel with three or more masts, fore-and-aft rigged on only the aftermost

  5. List of longest ships - Wikipedia

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    Image Ref Pioneering Spirit: Crane vessel: 382 m (1,253 ft) 499,125 DWT: 403,342 GT: 2015– In service Pioneering Spirit is the largest twin-hulled vessel ever built as well as, at 124 metres (407 ft), the widest ship in the world. Photo is prior to renaming of vessel. [70] [71] Q-Max (14 ships) LNG carrier: 345 m (1,132 ft) 128,900 DWT ...

  6. List of large sailing vessels - Wikipedia

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    Largest sailing vessels Names Image Year Status Shipyard LOA sparred Beam Masts & type Hull material Sail area Gross tonnage Displacement Note SS Great Eastern: 1858: H: J. Scott Russell & Co. 692 ft (211 m) 82 ft (25 m) 6-mast sailing steam ship: Iron: 18,150 sq ft (1,686 m 2) 18,915 GRT: 32,160 long tons: passenger liner, later converted to ...

  7. Ship measurements - Wikipedia

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    Used mainly to determine the minimum water depth for safe passage of a vessel and to calculate the vessel's displacement (obtained from ship's stability tables) so as to determine the mass of cargo on board. Draft, Air – Air Draft/Draught is the distance from the water line to the highest point on a ship (including antennas) while it is ...

  8. Handymax - Wikipedia

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    The average speed depends on size and age. The cost of building a handymax is driven by the laws of supply and demand. In early 2007 the cost building a handymax was around $20 million. As the global economy boomed, the cost doubled to over $40 million, as demand for vessels of all sizes exceeded available yard capacity.

  9. List of United States Navy ships - Wikipedia

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    List of United States Navy ships is a comprehensive listing of all ships that have been in service to the United States Navy during the history of that service. The US Navy maintains its official list of ships past and present at the Naval Vessel Register (NVR), [1] although it does not include early vessels.