Here’s the biggest ships ever made in the world. These ships come from various categories. There are cruiser ship, cargo, warship and tanker as well. These ships is one of the achievement of the transportation technology as well as the human. Let’s take a look at those biggest ships ever made in the world to see how big they can be.
1. Knock Nevis, The biggest Super Tanker
This is the king of all supertankers, and possibly if viewed from its dimension is the largest ship ever built. In term of the ships that still operating, this is indeed the largest ships. The Carriers stories are also quite interesting.
First, these ships have been called:
- Sea wise Giant”
- Porthos”
- Happy Giant”
- Jahre Viking”
- Knock Nevis”
Knock Nevis, or T.T. Jahre Viking is the largest ship ever built. This is a super tanker with a class ULCC (Ultra Large Crude Carrier), ship length is 485 meters (1503 feet), when the ship was standing then the ship will be taller than the Petronas Twin Tower. Jahre Viking has a depth of 25 meters in fully laden. Because of its large size, the Jahre Viking can not pass through the canal of Panama or Suez Canal and even the English Channel, was not passable. Cargo capacity (deadweight tonnage) of the Jahre Viking is 564.763 tons, Jahre Viking can carry about 650.000 m³ (4.1 million barrels) of crude oil (crude oil) once sailed. Jahre Viking was originally built with a displacement of 480.000 tons by Sumitomo Heavy Industries yard in Japan in 1975 with hull number 1016, which later named Sea wise Giant.
2. Emma Maersk, the biggest container ship
