Knock Nevis, Seawise Giant, Jahre Viking - The World's Biggest Ship 

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Must have been interesting times! Thanks for comment to my video.

Longer than 4 football fields, UK or USA. Imagine walking four and a half city blocks, you're there!

Yes, built by Sumitomo Heavy Industries (住友重機械工業株式会社), Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan. She had 46 tanks, 31,541 square metres of deck and a crew of 40.

Lol Petronas Towers

She's Bigger!😎

See Jeremy Clarkson's Extreme Machines, Ep2 1998: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WX2HFVHbo18.html

Thanks Fury, I hope to produce some offshore videos soon.

Still features in many biggest, largest, greatest ship lists. Truly impressive!

Jesus....shut the fuck up, you fucking hippie. Don't like oil, start with changing your own life first before condemning others/

Bro Its not a ship by the way. Its floating offshore facility and can be moved by a tug boat etc.

It's not a ship dude. It's a floating platform.

En effet, les portes-conteneurs, plus grands navires actuels, ne dépassent pas, et font tous la taille de 400m. Faire un navire plus gros, plus lourd, reviendrait à changer ce standard bien pratique et causerait un problème similaire à celui rencontré par le Jahre Vicking/Knock Nevis : il ne pouvait pas aller dans tous les ports ni même traverser la Manche et le Canal de Suez, à cause de son trop grand tirant d'eau une fois à charge. Ce qui est très peu rentable pour les grands armateurs du commerce mondial, et pour toute autre compagnie de transport de pétrole où de minerais. Pour les bateaux de croisière, ce serair globalement se tirer une balle dans le pied : tous les 2 ans ils sortent un navire de 2m seulement de plus que le précédent, passer d'un coup à un navire de 460m, voire plus, serait dénué de bon sens, sachant que l'armateur (dont j'ai oublié le nom) détient déjà les 6 plus longs bateaux de croisière au monde (ceux de la classe Oasis of the Sea), ils n'ont aucun concurrent à dépasser à part eux même, et n'ont donc aucun intérêt à faire de la surenchère. Personellement, j'aurais bien aimé qu'ils ne démantèlent pas ce navire, qu'ils le transforme en musée aurait été mieux. Si j'écoute l'enfant en moi, j'aimerais que soit construit un navire de 501m de long aux Chantiers de Saint Nazaire, propulsé au GNL, mais ce serait tout de même aussi gigantesque que capricieux et intuile...

The maersk emma is bigger by volume. This is just longer, but the emma can carry more weight and has the biggest engine in the world.

@@doodskie999 First of all Emma Maersk *isn't even the biggest container ship* in the world. Not even in the Maersk Line itself. Those would be the Triple E-class containerships - of which 31 has been built since 2013. But the biggest container ship ever made is the CSCL Globe. The Wiki entry says this: "Upon its entry into service, CSCL Globe superseded Mærsk's Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller as the world's largest operational container ship." "The maersk emma is bigger by volume" Well, it says here it can carry 14,470 TEU (twenty foot containers). The Triple-E class Maersk container ships can carry 18,000 TEU But the CSCL Globe class of container ships can carry 19,100 TEU Second of all... "This is just longer" . Ships are NOT measured by length. Neither are they measured by "volume". No they are measured by *gross tonnage* and *deadweight tonnage* So let's compare the gross tonnage of the ships. Emma Maersk: 170,794 tons Triple E-class Maersk container ships: 184,260 tons CSCL Globe: 187,541 tons Knock Nevis/Seawise Giant: 260,941 tons You were saying?? "but the emma can carry more weight" No. She. Can. NOT. How much a ship can carry is *also* measured in tonnage, more specifically in deadweight tonnage. So let's compare the deadweight tonnage of the ships. Emma Maersk: 156,907 DWT Triple-E class: 196,000 DWT CSCL Globe: 204,605 DWT Knock Nevis/Seawise Giant: 565, 763 DWT (!!) So the Seawise Giant can basically carry *three times* (!) as much as those container ships. Yes, 565,763 tons in deadweight tonnage is an insane amount of weight on a ship. You were saying?? Here's what I am saying. You're ignorant. You make assertions backed up by nothing factual. You think you know more than you actually do. To reiterate: Ships are measured by tonnage and in that field Seawise Giant still is the largest ship ever made. Period.

@@doodskie999you couldn't be more wrong than that , this tankers load capacity is 3 times the mersks , your probably drunk or high . Cheers to you .

I agree, the propeller was 30 feet (9.14 m) in diameter, had 5 blades and weighed 50 tons. It was driven by a 50,000 HP steam turbine engine through a 2 stage reduction gear. The rudder weighed 230 tons.

@@hydrographics100 obrigado 👍

Yes lhouma2000, it’s an incredible amount (there are several references, here’s one: www.vesseltracking.net/article/seawise-giant). ULCC (Ultra Large Crude Carrier) supertankers typically carry 2 million barrels (bbls) of oil while the Knock Nevis replacement vessels FSO Africa and FSO Asia can each hold 2.8 million barrels. For lots of great information search ‘oil tanker’ on Wikipedia.

The images are all original taken during my stay on the vessel. The information was gleaned from various websites notably Wikipedia and crosschecked where possible. Hope any errors didn't distract from your enjoyment of the video.

While working in the Al Shaheen field I was occasionally transferred to the Knock Nevis to standby between jobs or wait for a chopper back to the beach. All the cabins were very big.

Wow, thanks for taking to time for pictures. As far as I know, those are the only ones of the Knock Nevis bedrooms.

hydrographics wow you were on Knock Nevis do you maybe have some mor photos of ship

Thanks again for your interest, the best photos I have are reproduced in the video.

Why it was breaked into pieces?

Yes, the ship was kept very clean inside and outside.

Fortunately Seawise Giant was in shallow water, not underwater and did not need to be righted but this is nevertheless interesting: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jpF7klWsAQ4.html.

The ship was built with a deadweight tonnage of 418,611 tons. C.Y. Tung who bought the incomplete ship, inserted an 81.45 meters long mid-section to increase the deadweight tonnage to 564,763 tons. The weight of the vessel, its displacement, was 81,879 long tons or 646,642 long tons fully loaded.

No, the vessel was bought by Amber Development Corporation and renamed M/V Mont for its last voyage to Alang, India in January 2010 where she was scrapped. According to Times of India the dismantling project took about 18,000 workers. Her 36 tonne anchor was saved and is exhibited in the Hong Kong Maritime Museum.

I reckon he could have run the length of the ship in about 50 seconds. It would have taken 10-12 minutes to walk around it at average walking pace.

From Wikipedia: The shipyards at Alang recycle approximately half of all ships salvaged around the world. It is considered the world's largest graveyard of ships.

Well that’d make it a pretty large target

@@marcoroberts9462 Also utterly unsuitable for any role in war - aside from carrying fuel that is...

worst warship ever

Yes, at 3:15. Can't believe it's almost 12 years ago I watched the ship depart on its last voyage.

First comment on that. Yes. I have had not always appreciated the music choice on some videos. Mute the sound?

Surprising indeed even though there were two anchors and the weight of the chains. The study of anchor holding power is another subject!

Good comparison Liam. From Wikipedia information taken at the end of 2018, when Knock Nevis was refit/extended (1981) she would have been 2nd in the list of entirely self-supported towers behind CN Tower (553.33 m), but 1st in the list of tallest buildings ahead of Sears Tower (442.1 m). Now Knock Nevis (458.45 m) would now be 6th in the list of towers and 15th in the list of tallest buildings.

Thanks for your comment. Although impressive, the Prelude FLNG is a floating platform and anchored in one location off the north coast of Australia. Until it’s last assignment as Knock Nevis, a floating storage and offloading unit, Seawise Giant was a supertanker ship which sailed mainly between the Middle East and USA. She was built 34 years before the Prelude FLNG. Freedom of the Seas was the largest passenger ship when built in 2006, Symphony of the Seas is probably the largest cruise ship today (2020). The Freedom Ship is a proposed floating city which may never be built.