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Seawise Giant—earlier Oppama;
later Happy Giant,
Jahre Viking,
Knock Nevis, and Mont—was a ULCC
supertanker and the
longest self-propelled ship in...
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intended to
convert her into a
floating university cruise ship
called Seawise University. In 1972,
while she was
undergoing refurbishment in Hong Kong...
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including above-deck containers. The
previous largest ship, the
supertanker Seawise Giant, was
dismantled in 2010. All four oil
tankers were
constructed for...
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Seawise is a name ****ociated with Chinese-Hong Kong
shipping magnate Tung Chao-yung. It is a pun on his
abbreviated name "C. Y. Tung."
Seawise Giant, a...
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infrastructure to
export oil.
FPSOs can be a
conversion of an oil
tanker (like
Seawise Giant) or can be a
vessel built specially for the application. A vessel...
- (344 ft) tall, and made with more than 260,000
tonnes of steel,
beating Seawise Giant (the
previous record holder) as the world's
longest vessel. The vessel...
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measuring deadweight tonnage or
length overall,
behind only the
supertanker Seawise Giant (renamed five times,
including to
Knock Nevis),
which existed from...
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stern of the ship. The
Seawise University, Universe, and
Universe Explorer were
supplied and
managed by Tung Chao Yung's
Seawise Foundation.
Concerns about...
- 1972: The
wreck of the
Seawise University, the
former RMS
Queen Elizabeth, in
Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong...
- conception, from
power plants to
vehicles as
large as the
supertanker Seawise Giant. The
turbine was
invented circa 1908 by the
Swedish brothers Birger...
