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Today we are going to talk about the 10 largest ships in the world in general.
The Royal Mail Steamer Titanic or Titanic in short is a British passenger liner in the North Atlantic Ocean and One of the famous ship that sank on 14th of April 1912 after striking an ice berg during her maiden voyage.It was the biggest ship during her time. But till date there are more than 50 ships which are larger and longer than the Titanic.These are some of the cruise ships , oil tankers,container ships and bulk carriers.But in our list today we will only the selected 10 famous ships larger than Titanic.
10. QUEEN MARY ,UK
It is a retired British ocean liner that sailed primarily in the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967. Queen Mary was once considered the finest ocean liner and it made exactly 1001 tramsatlantic crossing before it was converted into a hotel in Long Beach California.
09. FREEDOM OF THE SEAS, Norway and USA
Freedom of the seas is a cruise ship operated by Royal Caribbean International. It launched in May 2006 as of November 2018. She is one of the 15 largest passenger ship in the world with about 3634 passenger and 1300 crew
08. USS ENTERPRISE , USA
At number 8 spot comes the biggest Navy ship ever built in history. USS Enterprise is decommissioned nuclear powered aircraft carrier in service during 1961 to 2012. It has length of 342.2 m and weight displacement of 94 781t .
07. MS BERGE STAHL , Norway
The MS Berge Stahl is bulk carrier merchant ship mainly transporting out of Iron ore , That has capacity of 364 767 t deadweight and she was one of the longest during her time. A length of about 342.08m
06. QUEEN MARY 2 , UK
Queen Mary 2 named by Queen Elizabeth in 2004 , It is a British American liner that made her maiden voyage in January 2004 . At the time of her constitution Queen Mary 2 was the longest at 345.03 and largest with a displacement weight of 79 300t
05. ALLURE OF THE SEAS , Norway and USA
Allure of the Seas is an Oasis-class cruise ship owned and operated by Royal Caribbean International. As of 2018, the Oasis class ships were the largest passenger vessels ever in service, and Allure is 50 millimetres (2.0 in) longer than her sister ship Oasis of the Seas, though both were built to the same specifications. Designed under the name "Project Genesis", she was ordered from Aker Finnyards in February 2006 and her construction began at the Perno shipyard, Turku, Finland, in February 2008.She was named in May 2008 after a contest was held to name her and her sister.The keel of Allure of the Seas was laid on 2 December 2008, shortly after the shipyard had been acquired by STX Europe.She has a total length 360m and displacement 100 000t
04. MS VALE , Brazil
Ms Vale Brasil previously know as well Brasil is a very large Ore carrier owned by brazilian mining company Vale. She is the first of 740 000t very larg Ore carrier and it is designed to carry Iron Ore from Brazil to Asia. MS Vale Brasil stretches up to 362m.
03. MAERSK LINE , DENMARK
Maersk Triple E class container ships comprise a family of very large container ships of more than 18 000 TEU. When thay were built they were the largest container ships in the world. The biggest of this class is Maersk Mckinney Moller with the length of 399.2m and a displacement of 55 000t.
02. BATILLUS CLASS , France
The Batillus class super tanker was a class of super tankers ships built in France at the end of 1970's and four such ships were built between 1970 and 1976. Serving until the final one was Scrapped in 2003, The length of each Batillus class was 414.2 and displacement of 77 300t.
01. SEAWISE GIANT / KNOCK NERVIS , Japan
The Seawise Giant was a ULCC super tanke. That was longest ship ever built . It possessed the heaviest dread rate ever recorded and the length of Knock Nervis is 458.45m. When fully loaded it's displacement was 657 019t. It sank during the Iran - Iraq war.But was later salvaged and restored to service. It was converted to a floating storage and offloading unit in 2004
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