Though not many people know of Seawise Giant’s rollercoaster ride on the choppy oceans her 36-tonne heavy anchor remains to narrate her illustrious tale. Workers stripped the last part of her metal body and sold it off, thus ending her stellar 30-year-long service as the biggest ship in the whole world. Here she was renamed one last time as Mont, before being transported to the world-renowned ship-breaking yard in Alang in the Indian state of Gujarat. It was time for the gigantic ship, which once cut huge waves of the ocean with her sharp bow, to live out the rest of her days off the course and retire. It was here that Oppama was given the new name Seawise Giant, which ironically stuck with it forever.Ĭomparison of Seawise Giant (Knock Nevis) with large buildings and ships. The ship lay unclaimed for a while, until a Hong Kong-based logistics service provider and container shipping company, Orient Overseas Container Line bought it. It is said that an unnamed Greek business tycoon wanted the supertanker built for himself, but when the work on the ship was done, he backed out of the deal. Engineering the biggest shipĪs its story goes, construction work on the aptly-named Seawise Giant began in the Oppama shipyard in Kanagawa, Japan in 1974, where it was completed in the year 1979 after five years of hard labour. It was the biggest man-made ship ever built in human history. Such was the size of the colossal tanker – Seawise Giant – that it could put several other self-proclaimed massive passenger ships or even tankers to shame. ( Auke Visser / Used With Permission)Įver wondered how huge a ship could be? Well, if a ship couldn’t navigate the English Channel or cross the Egyptian Suez Canal, it ought to be bigger than anything one can ever imagine. That is why super-tankers are so used in the world of shipping, but while sailing thay are making too great risks for the ecology.Seawise Giant leaving Dubai Drydocks. This capacity is just enormous, and you can imagine that with one delivery of this vessel the whole world economy will be able to perform for more than 2 days. The vessel has a displacement of 647,955 metric tones and can carry 4.1 million barrels of crude oil. The vessel was too hard for opperation, because the restriction of Suez Canal and Panama Canal, are making the expences about long voyages too big and the profits of Knock nevis were too little for such large ship. After renaming of Jahre Viking to Knock Nevis on 2004, the vessel is anchoren in the Persian Bay, near Qatar, where is used as sailing storage tank. This was the last sailing name of the ship. The last name of the ship and most famous one was Jahre Viking. The vessel Knock Nevis, was built with the name Seawise Giant, and changed her name some times. In spite of this Knock Nevis is a symbol in shipping and will all the time stay in the hearts of all ships fans. In all other competitison, just for example Gross Tonnage and Net Tonnage, the vessel is losing the first place from the Euronav and Overseas Super-tankers TI Europe, TI Asia and TI Oceania. So the vessel collected the whole 565,000 metric tons deadweight and now is the largest ULCC in the world. In spite of this fact, the ship-owner ordered to Knock Nevis to be added 87,000 thousand tones to the deadweight, with the idea this vessel to becaome some symbol of oil tankering and shipping at all. The vessel was ordered into the ship-yard and idea about this vessel was to be the largest one built ever. The story about this is very interesting and very nice, in my own oppinion. The vessel Knock Nevis is the largest one in comparison with all other vessels from this type, while the character using is deadweight. The deadweight of the vessel is 565,000 metric tons, the length is 458 meters, beam of 69 meters and draft of 26.4 meters. The vessel Knock Nevis is the largest super-tanker (ULCC built ever.
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