Biggest Ship In The World

Biggest Ship In The World

Seawise Giant, later the Happy Giant, Jahre Viking, and Knock Nevis, was a ULCC supertanker and the longest ship ever built, and possessed the greatest dead weight tonnage ever recorded. Fully laden, her displacement was 657,019 tonnes (646,642 LT; 724,239 ST), the heaviest ship of any kind, and with a draft of 24.6 m (81 ft), she was incapable of navigating the English Channel, the Suez Canal or the Panama Canal ..

How Big Is Seawise Giant?

Overall, she was generally considered the largest ship ever built. Additionally, she is considered to be the largest mobile man made object ever built. She was last used as a floating storage and offloading unit (FSO) moored off the coast of Qatar in the Persian Gulf at the Al Shaheen Oil Field.

The vessel was sold to Indian ship breakers, and renamed Mont for her final journey in December 2009. After clearing Indian customs, she was sailed to, and intentionally beached at Alang, Gujarat, India for demolition.

Seawise Giant

Seawise Giant was the longest ship ever constructed, longer than the height of many of the world’s tallest buildings. Though slightly smaller than Taipei 101 at 509.2 metres (1,671 ft) and the Willis Tower at 527.3 metres (1,730 ft) from street level to top of antenna, she is larger than the Petronas Twin Towers at 452 metres (1,483 ft).

In spite of its great length, the Seawise Giant was not the largest ship by gross tonnage, ranking fifth at 260,941 GT, behind the four 274,838 to 275,276 GT Batillus-class supertankers. The Batillus class and the Seawise Giant were the largest self-propelled objects ever constructed.

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