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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.
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 ...
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.
The Seawise Giant, also known as the Knock Nevis, was the biggest ship ever built at 564,739 tons, according to The New York Times. ... See photos of Times Square as Americans ring in 2025.
The previous largest ship, the supertanker Seawise Giant, was dismantled in 2010. ... Categorized ship photos; Hellespont homepage This page was ...
Depending on design requirements, some ships have extremely large internal volumes in order to serve their duties. Gross tonnage is a monotonic and 1-to-1 function of the ship's internal structural volume.
Photos: Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 Ford Island is seen in this aerial view during the Japanese attack on Pearl harbor December 7, 1941 in Hawaii. The photo was taken from a Japanese plane.
This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:Bateaux_comparaison2.svg licensed with Cc-by-sa-2.0-de, ... Seawise Giant; Usage on ja.wikipedia.org