![]() ![]() Knock Nevis is the largest ship ever to exist on Earth One of the giant's 36-ton anchors has been preserved and is now on display at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum. On January 4, 2010, Mont was washed ashore near the Indian city of Alang (Gujarat state), where its hull was cut into metal for a year. In December 2009, he made his last crossing to the shores of India. The new owner renamed Knock Nevis Mont and raised the Sierra Leone flag on it. It was sold to Amber Development Corporation for recycling. Even after the commissioning of the Prelude FLNG supertanker-gas plant, it will remain the largest vessel in history with a displacement of 657,018 tons.īy 2010, the Knock Nevis had reached its end of life. Its dimensions were: 458.45 meters long and 69 meters wide, which made it the largest ship in the world in the past. Technical characteristics of the oil tanker "Knock Nevis": ![]() The "stopping distance" of the supertanker "Knock Nevis" is 5000 meters. And yet - for more than 20 years it remains the largest ship on the planet. They shot at him with rockets and cut him in half. The huge ship survived several owners and bears the fourth name "Knock Nevis". But his cargo is $ 195 million worth of oil. The supertanker "Knock Nevis" could easily take aboard the Empire State Building and the Eiffel Tower. Welded-in additional hull sections increased its deadweight to 564,763 tons. ![]() Finally, in 1981, the supertanker was ready to go again. Japanese shipbuilders cut and ramped up the tanker, which took a lot of time. Three years later, the cargo ship was sold to a new owner, who ordered an increase. Its carrying capacity was 480,000 tons (typical modern oil tankers hold 280,000 tons). Soon the cargo ship was sold to a certain Greek ship owner, who gave the oil tanker its first real name "Seawise Giant". #KNOCK NEVIS SERIAL NUMBER#Then the oil tanker "Knock Nevis" was "born" under the modest serial number 1016 and was not so big. The history of this sea vessel began in Japan in 1976 (some sources indicate 1975) at the shipyards of Sumitomo Heavy Industries. Even the longest transportation of valuable cargo is much cheaper than operating a conventional vessel. Today, large tankers and supertankers are fully automated and serviced by a relatively small crew. ![]() The development of shipbuilding of oil tankers takes into account the features and advantages of supertankers, since when transporting oil on a seagoing vessel that can hold more than 100,000 tons of oil, transport costs do not exceed much than when using a tanker with a carrying capacity of 16,000 tons. I doubt that there will be ships and vessels whose size and displacement would have the same rapid development trend as tankers. Accordingly, the scale of oil production is increasing and the requirements for its transportation are becoming more stringent. This process is associated with the continuous development of heavy industry and the emergence of an increasing number of motor technology. The demand for oil is growing every year. By the beginning of the First World War, sea tankers already accounted for 3% of the world merchant fleet. This type of tanker, the tank for liquid cargo is the hull, which has survived to this day. The sailing ship Atlantic, built in 1863, was the very first sea tanker for the transportation of oil in a tank, the walls of which served as a casing. Already in the 19th century, when coal was the main raw material, crude oil was transported in wooden and zinc barrels in the holds of special sailing ships intended for the transport of oil. The route along which ships of this type go is called "oil". Often, it is most profitable to transport "black gold" not by land, but by water. Oil has long become the most sensitive nerve of the entire world industry. Knock Nevis (formerly also called Seawise Giant, Happy Giant and Jahre Viking) is the largest ship ever to exist on Earth ![]()
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