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The longest ship in the world June 13th, 2016
Modern giant ships can be compared according to different indicators: deadweight, width, height, number of passengers. But let's still look at the MOST LONG ship on the planet.
Most big ship on the planet and the largest floating structure ever created by man is the Prelude FLING. It is equal in length to the famous Wailing Wall in Israel. On board could accommodate five full-size football fields or 175 Olympic swimming pools.
However, its purpose is different: it is the world's first floating factory for the extraction and liquefaction of natural gas.
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The vessel belongs to the Dutch-British oil and gas company Shell, built in South Korea by Samsung Heavy Industries, and will work off the coast of Australia, extracting gas from the ocean floor - the first drilling is scheduled for 2017. In the strict sense of the word, this is not quite a ship: the Prelude will not be able to sail under its own power, and it will have to be towed to the workplace (the information is controversial, there is another on the Internet). But this monster is unsinkable and indestructible: it was created specifically for service in the "cyclone zone" in open ocean and is able to withstand even the fifth, highest category hurricane. The planned service life is 25 years.
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The ship is designed to transport natural gas, convert it into liquefied natural gas (LNG) and, finally, transfer it directly to transport ships. The ship will have a displacement of more than 600,000 tons (namely 661,400 tons), and it is planned that the ship will carry up to 3.6 million tons (3.9 million tons) of LNG per year. The Prelude has a total capacity of over 430 million liters, equivalent to about 175 Olympic swimming pools.
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Prelude FLNG will be located approximately 475 km northeast of Broome, Western Australia for approximately 25 years. Season of work in this region lasts from the end of November to April, but the new giant ship can work all year round, in all weather conditions.
The mooring system allows the platform to turn slowly in the wind so as to reduce the impact of a powerful natural element.
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The giant platform will go to natural gas production sites by 2017. However, Prelude FLNG's glory may soon fade, as company representatives said that in this moment are developing an even larger ship. "We're developing a huge platform," said Bruce Stinson, Shell's general manager last week, "it's going to be another floating giant," he noted.
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Once the largest ship was the Titanic. But today there are ships that are several times the size of the Titanic. In this article we will talk about the largest ship in the world.
The Titanic was a cruise ship. Everyone remembers his story. He collided with an iceberg because he was very huge and could not turn sideways in time. It seemed that such liners could not exist, they are very bulky and their fate was not comforting. But it turned out that such liners can exist, while being several times larger. For today the most large liner this is "Oasis of the Seas". Photo below:
It is indeed several times larger than the Titanic. Look at this image:
Company " Royal Caribbean International wanted to build a ship that would be the best for years to come and on October 28, 2009 Oasis of the Seas was launched. It immediately became the largest cruise ship in the world. The vessel also became the most expensive, as its price amounted to 1.24 billion dollars. The average cost of a ship's stay in the port is $230,000. And this is for a few hours of stay!
The dimensions of the liner are striking; its length is 360 meters, the width is 66 meters, and the height at the very high point was 72 meters.
The largest ship: characteristics
Correctly they say that this is not just a ship, but a whole Small town. The dimensions of this liner are five times larger than the dimensions of the Titanic. On board can be 6360 passengers and 2160 crew members. On the ship a large number of various entertainment centers. From swimming pools to real theatre. There are 4 pools on the liner, which together make up 23,000 liters of water. There are 12 thousand plants and 56 large trees on the ship. There is a park, a climbing wall, 10 spa cents. It is so huge that it is even divided into thematic zones.
The largest ship has several restaurants, its park is similar to a park in New York, so classical American music will be played there. There's a lot more to be said about the ship.
Dockwise Vanguard
Sure, the Oasis of the Seas is the largest liner, but there is also the Dockwise Vanguard, the world's largest heavy-lift ship.
On February 12, 2013, the ship made its first voyage. Dockwise Vanguard arrived at Gulf of Mexico in April 2013. The cargo he carried was 56,000 tons, but the maximum load could be 110,000 tons.
The vessel was designed by Hyundai Heavy Industries for Dockwise Shipping. It was launched in 2012. In terms of performance, it does not surpass the liner "Oasis of the Seas". Displacement 91238 tons, deadweight 117000 tons. Length 275 meters, width 79 meters, draft 9.5 meters. Max speed travel 14.4 knots, average 12.9 knots.
The way of loading onto the ship is also unique. Special compartments filled with water and the ship slowly but surely sinks under the water. After the ship is under water, cargo is loaded onto it.
To service the ship, 60 people will be required, who are located in the hold of the ship.
The well-known "Costa Concordia", which crashed in January 2012 off the coast of the island of Giglia (Tuscany), will be transported using this ship. Let me remind you that the Costa Concordia is several times larger than the Titanic.
The largest ships in the world
When Noah was ordered to build the ark, he received all the necessary design data and technological instructions. Judging by the divine technical specifications, the ark was three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty high. Impressive, of course, but elbowing the modern largest ship in the world is a very tedious task. The length of the Prelude FLNG is 929 and a half Egyptian royal cubits.
Floating LNG Plant
The title of the largest floating object is a passing thing, the purpose of such structures can be very different, and when experts see a reasonable limit is unclear.
A hull for the Prelude FLNG floating plant was built at a South Korean shipyard for Shell. Its purpose will be to extract it from the bottom of the ocean into a liquefied state and pump it to special gas carriers. As of mid-2015, this is the largest ship in the world. According to the plan, in 2017 this monster should stand somewhere off the coast of Australia and with might and main extract blue fuel from the bowels. It can store as much of it as an average metropolis needs for a year.
The length of this ship is 488 m, width - 74 m, 260 thousand tons of steel were used for the construction - this is more than for the twin towers of the shopping center in New York, in terms of displacement it is equal to six aircraft carriers. Prelude FLNG can be a real prelude to the emergence of a whole flotilla of such vessels, because experts talk about the significant advantages of this method of gas production - economic and environmental.
Dockwise Vanguard
In January 2012, a Concordia-class cruise ship struck rocks off the Italian island of Giglio, hit a hole and capsized and sank. More than 30 people died. Of the passenger ships, it was the largest ship in the world to have suffered such a disaster. When it was necessary to “pick up the garbage”, that is, to transport it away, one of the largest and most unusual ships in the world came to the rescue.
Dockwise Vanguard is the largest vessel in the world designed to carry extra bulky and heavy cargo. It belongs to the semi-submersible type. To accommodate cargo on a huge deck ( dimensions vessel: length - 275 m, width - 79 m) special ballast tanks are filled with outboard water, and the vessel sinks to the desired depth. The cargo is towed and held above the ship, which, as it floats, takes the weight on board. The cargo is rigidly fixed, and the ship follows at a speed of about 12 knots. desired route. The spectacle of a hard worker ship transporting huge oil platforms thousands of miles away will impress anyone. Therefore, the transportation of the Concordia to Genoa, where it was disposed of, is "seeds" for Dockwise Vanguard.
Container ship
The more containers can be loaded onto the deck and with the possible more speed deliver across the seas and oceans, the more profitable such transportation will be. Therefore, such ships occupy the first places among ships in terms of size and power of power plants.
For 2015, the championship is held by CSCL Globe, built in South Korea and owned by a carrier from China. Its length is 400 m, width - 58.6 m, carrying capacity is 184,605 tons.
For the sake of providing an amazing speed for such a colossus of 16 knots, the world's largest internal combustion engine with a capacity of 77,200 horsepower, as high as a five-story building, was manufactured for the ship. It is planned to manufacture several such container ships. And these will be the largest ships in the world, capable of transporting at one time such a number of containers in which you can hide the property of the inhabitants of a small town.
Valemax
Among the ships, which, due to their purpose, are supposed to impress with their size, there have always been dry cargo carriers and ore carriers - bulk carriers, that is, loaded in bulk. To fill the largest ships in the world carrying ore, 12,000 huge ones are needed - that's about 400 tons.
The 362-meter length and 65-meter width make Vale Brasil-type ore carriers a very noticeable object even in the Atlantic and Pacific expanses. Moreover, Brazilian ore suppliers are faced with the task of increasing the profitability of their products when delivering them by sea, and they have already ordered a whole flotilla of bulk carriers of this series from the shipyards of Southeast Asia, and soon there will be no crowding in the Atlantic expanses ...
Oasis of the Seas
Today, the infamous Titanic can truly impress with its size only in a movie shot by a great director. It is five times smaller than the largest passenger ship in the world, Oasis of the Seas, built in Finland, operated by the US and flying the flag of
Not all ports can accept this vessel, some it cannot enter without causing or receiving serious damage. The length of the hull is 360 m, the maximum width is 61 m, the height from the water surface to the top of the pipe is like a 25-storey building. Oasis in the Ocean is the largest cruise ship in the world, designed to provide 6,400 passengers with an unforgettable experience. For this, everything is provided on the ship: the world's largest cruise casino, a water park, a theater in which shows go on without interruption, surf pools, a golf course, and sports grounds. For lovers and those who love solitude, a park with real trees and shrubs has been planted, where you can safely find a place to stay together or relax alone.
In order to adequately serve passengers and the largest ship in the world, the number of crew has been increased to 2165 people. It seems that everyone will find a case on such an ark.
Floating City Freedom Ship
Unlike all previous ships that are already plowing the expanses of the seas, the Freedom Ship is just an idea, although the company involved in this project has already announced that it is ready to start construction. The ship-floating city will be able to accommodate 50,000 permanent residents and about 30,000 guests. It is intended to create an infrastructure similar to that required for small town, with all the facilities for a full-fledged work and recreation. Residential and working areas, schools, stadiums, swimming pools will be located on numerous decks. Park areas with real green spaces will make for all residents a comfortable permanent stay outside the land.
When completed, it will definitely be the largest ship in the world. The photos, where you can see the alleged appearance of the future ark, amaze with the scope of the idea. At the upper level, it is planned to place an airfield capable of receiving serious airliners. To provide a floating city, a whole network of solar and wind power plants will be built.
Design length - 1370 m, total number levels - 25. There is no suitable harbor on the planet for such a boat, so "Freedom" will be in constant circumnavigation.
Our blue planet
According to one version of the origin of life on Earth, all living things came out of the water. Considering how many people cannot imagine life without the sea, either in business or on vacation, it can be assumed that the top of the largest sea vessels will be constantly updated.
In this compilation, you will learn about the ten largest cruise ships in the world.
1. Princess Diamond. The weight of this ship is 116 thousand tons, and its length is 294 meters. On board this cruise ship can accommodate 2670 people. The area of this liner is ten times more area Buckingham Palace. The ship has more than 700 high-class cabins with balconies.
2. Carnival Dream. This liner weighs 130 thousand tons, and its length is 306 meters. It can travel 3646 passengers. This is a floating amusement park, which also has several cinemas on board.
3. Voyager of the seas. The weight of the ship is 138 thousand tons, length - 311 meters. On the liner 3114 passenger seats. On board this ship you can find a TV studio, ice rink, mini golf course and other entertainment.
4. Celebrity Eclipse This cruise liner weighs 122 thousand tons, and its length is 315 meters, which more length four Boeing 747s lined up. The ship has 19 decks, plus a lawn deck for playing croquet and bocce.
5 Norwegian epic. The ship weighs 156 thousand tons, and its length is 329 meters. The cruise liner can accommodate 4,100 passengers. There is a 24-hour pizza delivery service on board.
6. Splendida. The weight of the liner is 137,936 tons, and the length is 338 meters. Its capacity is 3274 passengers. The volume of space of the liner, which is one and a half million square meters, is larger than the volume of space eiffel tower.
7. Freedom of the Seas. The liner weighs 160 thousand tons, length - 339 meters. The board accommodates 3634 passengers. This ship looks like it's floating water park, since on board there are all kinds of water activities: there is waterslides, many pools, a jacuzzi, a wave simulator, a water park for children and an ice rink.
8. Disney Dream. The weight of this cruise liner is 130 thousand tons, and its length is 340 meters. Disney Dream seats 2500 people and is almost an exact replica of Disneyland in body of water. On board is a huge cinema and water park.
9. Queen Mary II. This cruise ship weighs 151,400 tons and is 345 meters long. On board can accommodate 2640 passengers. The length of the vessel can be compared with the length of 80 tourist buses, set bumper to bumper.
10. Royal Caribbean. Oasis of the Seas. The length of this gigantic ship is 361 meters, and the weight is almost 223 thousand tons. In conditions of maximum comfort, 5.4 thousand passengers can be accommodated here. This vessel, due to its size, is unable to pass through Panama Canal. The board of the liner resembles an amusement park, where various shows are held every day.
Oceans and seas occupy most the surface of our planet. To move on them, mankind has been building various ships for many millennia, and some of them are truly gigantic in size. The largest ships in the world, as a rule, are cargo ships tankers or container ships. But among other types of ships in the world, there are those that deserve interest when it comes to the largest ship. Therefore, in the following top 10 most big ships relatively modest in size compared to tankers, but the largest in their class vessels (military, passenger, sailing) are included.
1. Prelude
Although this ship is not yet in operation, it already rightfully bears the title of the largest ship in the world. The dimensions of its hull, which has already been launched in 2013, are amazing. The length of the vessel is 488 m, and the width is 78 m. With such gigantic dimensions cargo Ship has a displacement of 600,000 tons. This is not quite a cargo ship, but the world's first floating platform designed for the production, liquefaction and subsequent transportation of natural gas. Builds a giant on order Royal Dutch Shell South Korean corporation Samsung Heavy Industries.
Full completion of construction is scheduled for 2017. The floating leviathan, which produces and processes gas independently, cannot go by sea; tugboats will be used for this. Place of future work of the platform - western australia, 295 km east of the city Broome. The cost of building the ship is $12 billion, and the estimated period of operation is 25 years. The design of the vessel is designed to withstand the most powerful cyclones that exist in nature, for this it has three shunting engines with a capacity of 6700 hp. With. every. With the help of them, during storms, the ship will turn to the required position. The capacity of the floating plant is 3,600,000 tons of liquefied gas per year.
2 Seawise Giant (Knock Nevis)
If the previous largest ship in the world represents the future of shipbuilding, then this largest ship in history has already been decommissioned and cut up for scrap. A giant 458.5 m long and 69 m wide was built in 1976, its displacement was almost 565 thousand tons. Its colossal dimensions did not allow it to pass through the Panama and Suez canals and even through the English load line was 24.6 m.
The maximum speed of the tanker, due to its size, was relatively small, 13 knots or 21.1 km / h, but even so, the stopping distance of the ship was 10.2 km, and the turning circle of the vessel was 3.7 km. Initially, in 1976, the ship, built by the Japanese Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI), was named Oppama. Then its dimensions were more modest, length - 376.7 m, displacement - 418.6 thousand tons. Later, the new owner of the ship, the Orient Overseas Line company from Hong Kong, ordered the restructuring of the ship, a cylindrical insert was added to it, and the ship acquired its final record size. In 1981, the ship was named Seawise Giant and began to sail the ocean under the Liberian flag carrying crude oil.
In 1986, during the Iran-Iraq conflict, the tanker ran aground due to damage from an anti-ship missile. After the war, it was bought and restored by the Norwegian Norman International, the ship was renamed the Happy Giant. Even before it was put into operation in 1991, it was again resold to the Norwegian shipping company Loki Stream AS, so when the ship left the shipyard in Singapore, it received another new name Jahre Viking. Last name Knock Nevis the tanker received in 2004 after its purchase by the Norwegian company First Olsen Tankers Pte, from this year it was anchored and it ceased to be a transport vessel. The giant made its last voyage in 2009 to the shores of India, where it was disposed of in 2010. One of his 36-ton anchors can be seen today in maritime museum Hong Kong.
It is currently the world's longest operating ship. This is a container ship with a length of 397 m, it is one of 8 vessels of the E-Class series built by the Moller-Maersk Group. The displacement of the ship is 157 thousand tons, it was launched in 2006. Its main purpose is to transport goods between Southeast Asia And Northern Europe through the Suez and Gibraltar Canals.
The ship is capable of carrying up to 11,000 typical 20-foot containers (with cargo), its carrying capacity is 123,000 tons. The power of its huge diesel plant is 109,000 liters. s, and its mass is 2300 tons, thanks to it the ship can go across the ocean at a speed of 25.5 knots. On average, a large commercial vessel travels a total distance of just over 300,000 km a year.
Today, the vessels of this series are the largest ships in operation in terms of displacement, which is 441.6 thousand tons. They have a double hull, which is dictated by modern environmental requirements for ships carrying dangerous environment bulk cargo. A total of 4 ships of this series were built, 2 of which, TI Europe and TI Oceania, sail the ocean, and 2 were turned into floating platforms to ensure the operation of the field near Qatar. The length of the vessels is 380 m.
5. Ore trucks Vale
These are the largest dry cargo ships operated in modern times. Most displacement large ships of this series reaches 400 thousand tons, and the length is 362 m. All vessels of the Vale family are owned by the Brazilian mining corporation of the same name. They are mainly used to transport iron ore to the US from Brazilian deposits.
Today, the fleet of super-ore carriers consists of 31 ships with a displacement of 380 to 400 thousand tons. Four of the largest ships were recently chartered to China's largest dry-cargo fleet operator COSCO for 25 years. The advantage of Vale ships is low diesel consumption and low emissions carbon dioxide per ton of ore, when compared with conventional ore carriers with a displacement of up to 200 thousand tons.
This is the biggest passenger ship, its length is 362 m, and the displacement is 19.8 thousand tons. It has a twin ship - the Oasis in the Seas cruise ship, which is 50 mm shorter. Allure of the Seas was launched as recently as 2008. The cruise ship has a crew of 2,100 and a maximum passenger capacity of 6,400. On board the ship are:
- a park with exotic trees and shrubs;
- various sports facilities ice rink, golf course, basketball and volleyball courts, bowling, etc.);
- swimming pools with jacuzzi;
- shops, casinos and more.
7. Aircraft carrier USS Enterprise
This is the largest warship in the world. The length of the aircraft carrier is 342 m, and the width is 78.4 m. This is the first warship of this type with a nuclear power plant (8 reactors). The Enterprise entered service in 1961. It was originally planned to build 5 ships of this type, but due to the enormous cost ($451 million) and a number of other reasons, the largest warships of this modification decided not to be replicated. In 2012, the aircraft carrier made its last 8-month sea voyage. The crew of the ship was 3000 people, the number of aviation personnel - 1800 people, up to 90 aircraft and helicopters could be located on the aircraft carrier.
If we talk about huge military ships, then Russia also has its own large aircraft carrier - this is the heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser Admiral of the Fleet Soviet Union Kuznetsov. It is 306 meters long and 72 meters wide. If we talk about the operating fleet, then at present it is second in size only to aircraft carriers of the Nimitz type, their length is almost 333 m.
This is the most big steamer ever built. Its length was 211 m, and the displacement was 22.5 thousand tons. The ship was launched in 1857. From the very beginning of its operation, it was firmly entrenched in notoriety, what other ship, except for the one pursued by misfortunes, could in just two years:
- cause the death of several dozen workers during launching;
- get damaged due to the explosion of the steam engine during the first passage;
- hit the rock.
The crew of the ship was 418 people, and the passenger capacity was 4,000 people. The steamer was propelled by two paddle wheels powered by steam engine with a capacity of 3650 liters. With. and a 4-bladed propeller powered by a 4000 hp steam engine. With. In addition, the ship could go by sea under sails fixed on 6 masts.
9. Project 941 Shark submarines
These are the largest submarines of our time. The length of the submarines of this series is almost 173 m, and the underwater displacement is 48 thousand tons. Their colossal dimensions, first of all, were determined by the dimensions of the main armament - intercontinental solid-propellant three-stage ballistic missiles.
The underwater vessel is set in motion thanks to two water-water nuclear reactors with a capacity of 190 MW each (shaft power 2 × 50 thousand hp) and two steam turbine plants. In addition, the ship has two standby DC electric motors and a thruster, consisting of two folding columns driven by electric motors. The crew of the submarine - 160 people.
This five-masted barque, launched by the French in 1912, is the largest sailing ship in history, its length was 146.2 m, and the displacement was 10.7 thousand tons. The ship was used to transport goods (wool, ore, coal) around the world. In 1922, near New Caledonia, the ship hit the reefs and was abandoned by the owners. In 1944, during the bombing, it was destroyed.
Any ship presented in our TOP 10 largest ships can be called engineering creations. Of course, gigantic dimensions are not the goal for which these ships were designed and built. The dimensions of the ships are determined, first of all, by the tasks that huge ships had to solve or solve.
