The Largest Ship in the World The biggest vessels crossing the seas usually pertain to one of the following categories: freighters, military ships, transatlantic cruisers, and tankers. Let us have a look at them. First category: freighters. Here, the award goes for a Danish container, Sovereign M�rsk, 347 metres and 154,000 tons. Capable of moving 6,600 large containers at a speed of 25 knots! Next, military ships. We must talk here about the nuclear aircraft carrier Harry Truman. It was launched in 1997, with a length of 334 meters, capable of carrying up to 90 fighters and a crew of 5,000 sailors in its bowels. In the recreational section, we have to mention the luxurious transatlantic Queen Mary II. It was built in France in 2003, with a record cost of $ 800 million, and a length of 345m. However, it has been recently surpassed in length by two other monsters of the seas: the Oasis of the Seas and the Allure of the Seas (twin brothers, both 361m long, and property of Royal Caribbean International). We must also make a honorable mention for the largest sailing ship ever built: France II. It was manufactured in Bordeaux in 1911 at the time of the great clippers. With five masts and 127 meters in length, it was destined for the traffic of nickel ore from New Caledonia, since steamships from those times could not face a long journey without resupply of coal. France II foundered at the age of 10 when it collided with a reef in New Caledonia. And now, let's give way for the largest of all the ships on world's history. In 1979, a Japanese company called Sumitomo Heavy Industries received an order for building a tanker ship. A very large tanker ship. Originally known as Seawise Giant, we currently know it for the last name it received: Knock Nevis. The ship had a capacity of 564,763 metric tonnes deadweight and an overall length of 458.45 meters (that is almost twice the size of Titanic, and longer than the Empire State Building). Its anchor alone weighed 36 tonnes (impressive when you think that a medium-sized car weighs about 1 tonne). The supertanker had an interesting life until its decease in 2010, full of interesting incidents. In 1988, it was damaged and sunk during the Iraq-Iran war and was declared unusable. Then, Norman International bought the wreckage, got it repaired in Singapore, and launched it again as Happy Giant, although it changed its name again (to Jahre Viking) only three years later when it was bought by a Norwegian shipowner. In 2004, Jahre Viking was bought by the First Olsen Tankers and was renamed as Knock Nevis. Since then, it was used as immobile offshore platform or FSO - a floating storage and offloading unit. In January 2010, it made a single and last voyage to Alang, India, where she was scrapped. Knock Nevis is not on the seas anymore after her 31 years of service, but is still known as the most massive ship ever built by man. subscribe us : website top 10 largest cruise ships in the world 2016, largest cruise ships, top 10 largest cruise ships in the world, largest cruise ships in the world 2016, top 10 biggest cruise ships in the world, harmony of the seas, anthem of the seas, oasis, quantum of the seas, largest cruise ships in the world, oasis-class cruise ship (ship class), cruise liner, cruise ship, biggest cruise ships 2016, world's largest cruise ships 2016, caribbean, رحلة بحرية, ships, freedom of the seas facebook Subscribe us : https://youtu.be/ftLhTB_W9Bc Top 10 cruise ships. Here is the list of the largest cruise ships in the world 2016. They are some of the biggest huge and luxurious ships. This list include the following cruise ships : 1 Norwegian Breakaway 2 Norwegian Epic 3 Royal Princess 4 MSC Divina 5 Independence of the Seas 6 Liberty of the Seas 7 Freedom of the Seas 8 RMS Queen Mary 2 9 Allure of The Seas 10 Oasis of The Seas Though Allure and Oasis are two identical ships, Allure was built few centimeter longer than Oasis due to some measuring errors. I thought they were same and ranked them based on their cost. But technically speaking, Allure is the Largest. Norwegian Breakaway -~-~~-~~~-~~-~- Please watch: "Samsung Galaxy S7 Review- галактики s7 Which Should You Buy?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh8uId87-GU -~-~~-~~~-~~-~-
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