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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.
Seawise Giant - Supertanker: 458.45 m (1,504.1 ft) 68.80 m (225.7 ft) 24.61 m (80.7 ft) 260,941 Scrapped Sumitomo Heavy Industries: Orient Overseas Container Line:
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.
While being the largest ships ever built by gross tonnage until Pioneering Spirit, the four Batillus-class ships were the second largest ever constructed when measuring deadweight tonnage or length overall, behind only the supertanker Seawise Giant (renamed five times, including to Knock Nevis), which existed from 1979 to 2010. [7]
TI-class supertanker. 7 languages. ... The previous largest ship, the supertanker Seawise Giant, was dismantled in 2010. History
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 ...
In 1979, the company famously built the Seawise Giant, an Ultra Large Crude Carrier (ULCC) supertanker; the longest ship ever built. In 2021, it was reported that SHI has ceased making light machine guns for the JSDF, citing a bleak economic prospects in the arms sector. [5] [6]