Seawise Giant

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TT Seawise Giant—formerly Oppama; later Happy Giant, Jahre Viking, Knock Nevis, and Mont—was a ULCC supertanker and the longest self-propelled ship ever built. It was constructed in 1974–1979 by Sumitomo Heavy Industries in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan. Seawise Giant's engines were powered by Ljungström turbines. The ship had the greatest deadweight tonnage ever recorded. Fully laden, she displaced 657,019 tonnes. When the ship was built, it was the heaviest self-propelled ship of any kind. With a laden draft of 24.6 m (81 ft) and a length of 458.45 m (1,504.1 ft), the ship was incapable of navigating the English Channel, the Suez Canal or the Panama Canal. She is generally considered the largest self-propelled ship ever built. In 2013, her overall length was surpassed by 30 m (98 ft) by the floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) installation Shell Prelude, a monohull barge design 488 m (1,601 ft) long with 600,000 tonnes displacement.. The ship was damaged in an airstrike in 1988 during the...

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