What is the largest ship in the world?

The largest ship ever built is Knock does not see , Supertanker 458 meters (1504 ft) in length and 69 m (226 ft) in width. Its dry weight is 564 763 tons, 647 955 tons when it is fully loaded with oil. This ship was built between 1979 and 1981 in the Oppama shipyard in Japan and is larger and heavier than the Empire State building on its side. For more than ten years it has been the largest ship in the world with a significant margin, although its current function is only as FSO (floating storage and unloading unit).

In full charge, the structure of the knock does not reach the 24.6 m (81 feet) underwater, so deep that it cannot pass through the English channel, much less Panama and Suez channels. It also prevents docking in many major world ports. At one point there were seven other ships with tonnage over 500,000, but since they have been discarded. Knock Nevis is more than twice the size of typical oil tankers, such as unfortunate Exxon Valdez .

The previous names that the ship passed on include the Happy Giant , Seawise Giant and Jahre Viking . Although it was originally built for a Greek customer, the ship was rejected because of problems with vibrations resulting from the defective design of the device. So the ship was sold to Chinese interests and had an extension of its length, when it became the largest ship ever built.

The typical route of the ship was supplying oil to the US from the Middle East, although Knock was not used as a floating storage and unloading unit during the war Iran-Irák when damaged by a fighter aircraft. The ship was repaired at a large cost in Singapore and sold to Norweigan. After browsing the renaming series, the ship was eventually placed on Qatar Al Shaheen Oil Field, located in the Persian Gulf, forever, as a storage platform.

Despite its huge size when in operation was in operation knocking nevis,was maintained by a crew of only 40.