Worlds largest ship

[Keith Tindell]

You must be on overtime by the time you walk from fowrd to aft, !!!KT

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25213845

[John Albert Evans]

Call me old fashioned but I still prefer the Tankers that I sailed on in the 1950's.

John Albert Evans

[Captain Kong]

Nowt wrong with a T2.

[Ivan Cloherty]

Can it be classed as a ship/tanker, as its function is purely as a storage facility and not carrying goods from one port to another. It has no means of propulsion or a rudder, it has three stern thrusters to allow it to counteract wind sheer when loading other vessels. It has a shiplike shape for ease of towing to a position where it will remain for 25 years. So in my mind it is not a ship per se, it is akin to an oil rig platform, but a floating one instead of a ground attached one. Just an observation

[John Albert Evans]

Absolutely true Brian, T2's were great ships so says an ex Ass/Std. San Leonardo, Eagle Oil Shipping Comapany, a T2 Tanker, 22.12.58 to 13.6.59.
Happy Days again

John Albert Evans.

[j.sabourn]

#14 Used to be as we all know a ship was a 3 or 4 masted vessel square rigged on at least 3 or something like that. A vessel was anything that floated. Even rigs are classed as vessels.. Although believe they come under different regulations as per the shipping acts. Think when they are anchored are considered floating structures. They get away in some of the regulations by disabling their thrusters if fitted. Is a moot point. Wonder how the new regulations look upon such. The likes of the Uncle John, The Stadive and the Tharus, although had the appearance and structure of a oil rig were considered vessels and were manned by a marine crew. Cheers John Sabourn. ps don't know where got the #14 from must have been looking at a different post JS

[Ivan Cloherty]

Hear everything you say John and agree, but when I join a 'ship' I want to go from A to B and then onto Z. Although it is a fantastic piece of engineering and ship type construction, and all credit to the Koreans for their part, I still like moving when at sea, mind you plenty of exercise as leaving from aft to for'd traversing across the bow then aft and across the stern to original starting point is supposed to be exactly one kilometre.

[j.sabourn]

If anything happens to one of these vessels God forbid, would be an awesome sight to see one breaking up due to bad weather. There is nothing man made that can compete with the elements. John Sabourn

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T2-SE-A1

By far the most common variety of the T2-type tanker was the T2-SE-A1, another commercial design already being built in 1940 by the Sun Shipbuilding Company for Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. They were 523 ft (159.4 m) long, 68 ft (20.7 m) abeam, with 10,448 gross register tons (GRT) and 16,613 DWT. Their turbo-electric transmission system delivered 6,000 shaft horsepower, with maximum thrust of 7,240 horsepower (5,400 kW), which produced a top-rated speed of about 15 knots (28 km/h) with a cruising range of up to 12,600 miles (20,300 km). After Pearl Harbor, the United States Maritime Commission ordered this model built en masse to supply U.S. warships already in accelerated production. 481 were built in extremely short production times by the Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company of Mobile, Alabama, the Kaiser Company at their Swan Island Yard at Portland, Oregon, the Marinship Corp. of Sausalito, California and the Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Chester, Pennsylvania. During that period, average production time from laying of the keel to "fitting out" was 70 days. The record, however, was held by Marinship, which had the Huntington Hills ready for sea trials in just 33 days.

If I remember correctly , only having looked around one , never sailed it , the main propulsion was from a turbo alternator producing 33,000 Volts . That voltage really hurts if it gets out of the cables

[j.sabourn]

Tankers... My knowledge of such is very limited as only served on 2 two over a period of 12 months. The Laurelwood and the Hollywood almost identical. Clean product carriers, about 26000 ddwt if memory hasnt gone yet. 26 tanks. Apart from the 4 thwartships tanks forward for the paraffins and kerosenes, these were separate and isolated from the others and had their own pumproom. I never was a tankerman and found them very different from a cargo vessel even to there being a different atmosphere among the manning on such, a lot seemed to be over anxious maybe because it was due to carrying Jet A1 most of the time from the persian gulf to japan or maybe that was norm for tankers . At the time I was being groomed for a 300,000 ton tanker they had built which lay up the Norwegian fiords and never did a trip for her owners J.I.J. and was later sold to pay off their debts etc. before folding up about 1975. Myself I never felt at home on a tanker, even on the Kiwi coast. I suppose old habits die hard. Maybe God works in mysterious ways as I never even saw this huge monstrosity which I have a feeling I wouldn't have lasted on. Cheers John Sabourn JIJ John I Jacobs