OceanShooter : Ship and Boat

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Knock Nevis (4). Knock Nevis ship images wallpaper gallery 4. Knock Nevis ship pictures and images collection 4. Knock Nevis was renamed Mont, and reflagged with Sierra Leone by her new owners Amber Development Corporation, for a single voyage to India in January 2010 where she was scrapped. Her 36 tonne anchor was saved and sent to the Hong Kong Maritime Museum for exhibition. 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). Knock Nevis (4). Knock Nevis ship images wallpaper gallery 4. Knock Nevis ship pictures and images collection 4. 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. Seawise Giant was featured on the BBC series, Jeremy Clarkson's Extreme Machines while she was under way as Jahre Viking. According to her captain, she could reach up to 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h) in good weather, it took 5.5 miles (8.9 km) to stop from that speed, and the turning circle in clear weather was about 2 miles (3.2 km). Knock Nevis (4). Knock Nevis ship images wallpaper gallery 4. Knock Nevis ship pictures and images collection 4.

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Knock Nevis (3). Knock Nevis ship images wallpaper gallery 3. Knock Nevis ship pictures and images collection 3. 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 deadweight 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. Overall, she was generally considered the largest ship ever built, as well as 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. Knock Nevis (3). Knock Nevis ship images wallpaper gallery 3. Knock Nevis ship pictures and images collection 3. After clearing Indian customs, she was sailed to, and intentionally beached at Alang, Gujarat, India for demolition. Seawise Giant was built in 1979 by Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. at their Oppama shipyard in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan as a 418,000 ton ULCC, and christened Oppama when the Greek owner failed to take delivery. The shipyard exercised its right to sell the vessel and a deal was brokered with Hong Kong Orient Overseas Container Line founder C. Y. Tung to lengthen the ship by several metres and add 156,000 metric tons of cargo capacity through jumboisation. Two years later she was relaunched as Seawise Giant. After the refit, the ship had a capacity of 564,763 metric tons deadweight (DWT), a length overall of 458.45 metres (1,504.1 ft) and a draft of 24.611 metres (80.74 ft). She had 46 tanks, 31,541 square metres (339,500 sq ft) of deck space, and drew too much water to pass through the English Channel. The rudder weighed 230 tons, the propeller 50 tons. The Seawise Giant was damaged during Iran–Iraq War by an Iraqi air force attack while transiting the Strait of Hormuz on 14 May 1988 and carrying Iranian crude oil. She sank and was declared a total loss. Knock Nevis (3). Knock Nevis ship images wallpaper gallery 3. Knock Nevis ship pictures and images collection 3.

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Knock Nevis (2). Knock Nevis ship images wallpaper gallery 2. Knock Nevis ship pictures and images collection 2. The largest super-tanker built ever is named Knock Nevis. It is well known as Seawise Giant, Happy Giant or Jahre Viking, but with changing of ship-owners and its function are coming new names. Now the vessel is operating as a storage tank to the platforms in Qatar. That was dictated, because of its large measurements. The vessel has a deadweight of 565,000 metric tons, a length of 458 meters and a beam of 69 meters. When it is fully loaded it cannot pass through the English channel, which is 32 miles wide, and what about Suez Channel or Panama Channel. That is why, the ship-owner decided to use it as a immobile storage tank offshore in the Qatar, where it is more profitable for the owner. Knock Nevis (2). Knock Nevis ship images wallpaper gallery 2. Knock Nevis ship pictures and images collection 2. The story for building this vessel is very interesting. It was designed to be the largest super-tanker built ever, when it was ordered. But just some months after starting of the work for building this vessel the owner, decided that sthis ship is too small and added 87 thousands tones more to its deadweight. So the super-tanker Knock Nevis collected a whole deadweight of 565,000 metric tones. In fact this vessel is on the fifth place by its gross tonnage, because it is just 236,710, behind the other ULCCs – TI.Europe, TI Asia, TI Oceania, TI Africa, but when we are talking about deadweight and measurements it is the first one. The vessel Knock Nevis was built in 1981 and put on water with the name Sea Wise Giant, but from 2004 is operating in the Qatar as a immobile offshore platform. A vessel has a summer displacement of 647,955 m.t. and can carry 4.1 million barrels. The draft of this vessel when it is fully loaded is 26.4 meters. You can imagine what are the measurements of Even the largest ports were operating with this vessel too hardly and that was the reason to be moored in Qatar as an immobile platform. Such kind of vessel has only a couple of ports that can serve such ultra large crude carrier. Knock Nevis operated a lot of years for its ship-owner, but after the last repair was decided to work in Qatar. Knock Nevis (2). Knock Nevis ship images wallpaper gallery 2. Knock Nevis ship pictures and images collection 2.

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Knock Nevis (1). Knock Nevis ship images wallpaper gallery 1. Knock Nevis ship pictures and images collection 1. Knock Nevis – former Jahre Viking – was converted to a Floating Storage and Offloading (FSO) unit in 2004 at Dubai Dry Docks (UAE) and installed on the Al Shaheen field for Mærsk Qatar the same year. The vessel is the largest tank vessel in the world. The ship was originally named the SEAWISE GIANT and was launched in 1975 at Sumitomo’s Oppama yard (Japan) for Universal Petrolrum Company (Liberian flag), and was lengthened to its current size in 1980 at Nippon Kokan’s Tsu yard (Japan). Fred. Olsen Production AS (FOP) is wholly owned by First Olsen Ltd. (FOL), a company owned 50% by Ganger Rolf ASA and 50% by Bonheur ASA. Both companies are listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. FOP has been active in the offshore oil & gas production business since 1994. The core business for Fred. Olsen Production is to own and operate FPSO on a lease basis in the international oil and gas business. Fred. Olsen Production's strategy is to deliver fast track conversion FPSOs and FSOs based on functional specifications and off the shelf technology. Knock Nevis (1). Knock Nevis ship images wallpaper gallery 1. Knock Nevis ship pictures and images collection 1. This provides the customer with competitive and fast track delivery of Floating Production Units including highly skilled and hands-on operations organisation. The Ultra Large Crude Carrier (ULCC) oil tanker Jahre Viking was the largest ship afloat in 2006. At 485.46 meters [1,503 feet long] from tip to tip, she surpasses the tallest land structure, the 424-meter Petronas tower of Malaysia. When fully laden she can not pass through the 32-mile-wide English channel, nor either the Suez and Panama canals. When fully laden, she sits 24.6 meters in the water, too deep to enter most of the world's major ports. She has a a beam of 69 meters [226 feet]. A typical very large crude carrier (VLCC) today is 280,000 DWT, 350 meters long, 60 meters wide and 30 meters deep. The Eiffel Tower is 300m high (984 ft) and consists of 6,300 metric tons of iron. The Statue of Liberty is 93.5m high (306 ft.) high, the figure alone is 46.4m (152 ft), and the figure weighs 254 metric tons. The Jahre Viking has a surprisingly small crew of 40. Apart from a few Russian junior officers, the officers, including her captain, are Indians. The crew is almost entirely Filipino. When it is fully loaded with crude oil, she has a cargo capacity (deadweight tonnage) of 564,763 tons, with 260,851 gross register tons. Gross tonnage is a measure of the internal capacity of a ship. It is a cubic or space measurement of all areas of a vessel with some allowances or deductions for exempt spaces such as living quarters. Jahre Viking can carry nearly 650,000 m³ (4.1 million barrels) of crude oil. Knock Nevis (1). Knock Nevis ship images wallpaper gallery 1. Knock Nevis ship pictures and images collection 1.