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...
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Seawise is a name associated with Chinese-Hong Kong shipping magnate Tung Chao-yung. It is a pun on his abbreviated name "C. Y. Tung." Seawise Giant, a...
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Batillus-class supertanker (redirect from Sea Giant (ship))
measuring deadweight tonnage or length overall, behind only the supertanker Seawise Giant (renamed five times, including to Knock Nevis), which existed from 1979...
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by the end of 2010. In December 2009, the longest ship ever built, Seawise Giant, was broken up at Alang. In August 2012, Oriental Nicety, famous for...
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Steam-powered vessel (section Seawise Giant)
struck an iceberg and took on water, killing over 1,500 people. The Seawise Giant supertanker was the largest steam-powered ship ever created and the...
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infrastructure to export oil. FPSOs can be a conversion of an oil tanker (like Seawise Giant) or can be a vessel built specially for the application. A vessel used...
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conception, from power plants to vehicles as large as the supertanker Seawise Giant. The turbine was invented circa 1908 by the Swedish brothers Birger...
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including above-deck containers. The previous largest ship, the supertanker Seawise Giant, was dismantled in 2010. All four oil tankers were constructed for shipping...
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(344 ft) tall, and made with more than 260,000 tonnes of steel, beating Seawise Giant (the previous record holder) as the world's longest vessel. The vessel...
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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...
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