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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 in history, built in 1974–1979 by Sumitomo Heavy Industries in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan.
Its history is an epic story rivaling that of more well-known ships like the Titanic. From its impressive construction to being sunk by Saddam Hussein’s missiles to its subsequent retrieval and revival, the Seawise Giant certainly earned its place among history’s great ships.
Seawise Giant, also known as Knock Nevis, was a ULCC supertanker that was the longest self-propelled ship in history. Built in 1974-1979 by Sumitomo Heavy Industries in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan, she possessed the greatest deadweight tonnage ever recorded.
Measuring 1,504 feet in length and having a cargo capacity of over 564,000 tons, the Seawise Giant was the world’s longest, biggest, and heaviest ship ever made. It was longer than the Eiffel ...
In 1979, the Sumitomo Heavy Industries in Japan completed an ultra-large crude carrier (ULCC) that is still the biggest and longest self-propelled ship in history, the Seawise Giant. Throughout its long and turbulent history, it would be known by several names: Knock Nevis, Oppama, Happy Giant, Jahre Viking, and Mont.
Seawise Giant (known later as the Happy Giant, Jahre Viking, Knock Nevis, Oppama, and Mont) was a ULCC supertanker. It was the longest ship ever built and had the greatest deadweight tonnage that has ever been recorded. [1]
The Seawise Giant was a 564,763 ton super super-tanker. She was the longest and largest man-made creation on the sea — recalls the erection over 2,000 years earlier of the Great Wall of China...
Measuring 1,504 feet in length and boasting a cargo capacity of over 564,000 tons, the Seawise Giant was the longest, biggest, and heaviest ship ever made – longer than the Eiffel Tower or the ...
The aptly-named Seawise Giant was a supertanker built in Japan in 1979 for a Greek business mogul who, by the time she was ready, either changed his mind or had gone bankrupt - reports vary -...
The Knock Nevis, originally known as the Seawise Giant, is a supertanker celebrated as the world’s largest ship, setting records with its immense size and capacity.