We all know about Super - Carriers and Super - Tankers ( Love them floating city blocks , I do ). Now, in the history we know .Can anyone tell me what is the BIGGEST ship in the world today ?
It must be one that has been the news . It can be a Freighter , Tanker , Liner ( ? ) or whatever .It just must be the absolute Biggest ! Just weight doesn’t count ! T.B. P.S. The reason for the question Mark on the Liners .I don’t consider what they haul passengers on cruises, as Liners .Those are Hotels on Barges .
You want a Liner ? There’s one in Long Beach , Ca.
i have ALWAYS said the nevy should buy up some of the 400k ton tankers off singapore, battleship armor up the aft crew, bridge, and engineering sections, and fill it with LACMs, ASMs, SAMs and just park one off each country that doesn’t like us. wouldn’t be pretty, wouldn’t look “naval” but it could eat ASMs and lay waste to entire small countries.
i have a bunch of IMEX freighter kits and plan on doing one like that.
At 400m long Barzan is the longest container ship. Seawise Giant (broken up) tanker was 458m.
But, in shipping business, biggest is not easy to define. There is the longest ship and there is a ship with the biggest carrying capacity. But you can’t compare carrying capacity of a container ship, tanker, a passenger ship or a livestock carrier. If we are looking at the ships draft, narow ship will have deeper draft then a ship of equal lenght but wider hull. And even then, depends what kind of ships are we looking at.
You can also look at ships hight wise. Some ships are built with hight limitations so that they can fit (when empty) under the bridge over the Suez canal.
Let’s have a little fun here .She’s afloat already and fitting out . My gosh , I would hate to have to parallel park her , I sure as heck know that ! T.B. P.S. Clue , She carries living cargo .
Up here in Seattle a few weeks ago there was an article about a big container ship–the CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin, said to be the largest container ship, to date, I think. Something like 1300 feet long and 18,000 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units: a measure of container # capacity). French ship, I think.
According to http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2389330 (where I am a regular contributor), she is 399m in lenght, 1m shorter then Barzan. If correct, and I think it is quite a reputable website, her owner/s might be banging their had at the wall [bnghead] for not adding that extra 101cm [:D]. Barzan is also wider, 59m vs 54.
Well , looks like I got you fellows and ladies stumped . I can’t give more clues than I have. If I do you will then know which ship it is . Suffice it to say , she has been on Television in a specific show . Which shall go unamed .
We got a winner ! I couldn’t say world’s Biggest Cruise ship cause everyone would’ve gotten it in minutes . Still , Although she is the Biggest Cruise ship in the world she is still , in my thinking , in this case , an accident waiting to happen .
Less that a full quarter of her hull is underwater ! I saw a program on her on the Science Channel - Impossible Engineering . She’s impossible alright , with a big hole right down almost her whole length above what hull she has.
I guess a balcony on a room smaller than a hotel room at the Mariott with a view seaward is worth the kind of money they charge . After the Costa Concordia disaster I would think there would be a rethink about the design of passenger carrying ships .Guess I was wrong .
Think , when you would go aboard this monstrosity you would be in the hands of the "Hotel’ Staff ! Not , the ship’s crew . I also wonder , with the flags they fly ( Ports and Countries of convenience ) how often they have lifeboat drills ? It is said that on the Concordia they didn’t even have a full drill . If that ! T.B. P.S. If you think about it , what is one thing about her that makes her even more dangerous ? She has a full waterpark above the so called main deck !I am sure all of you know what a gallon of water weighs ? Now multiply that for what is needed for this device . Put it seven decks above the water . Nuff Said.
Tis true! This is nothing more than a recipe for disaster!! Just thinking about what happened to the Costa Concordia came to my mind just as soon as I saw this abomination of engineering. Speaking of which, engineers can only forsee so much from what is already understood from the world around us, but not forseeing the effects of probability versus physics, and the likelyhood of catastrophic failure of available resources, and their ability to withstand the constant strain of the oceans’ tumultuous churning, and wind speed strength when it’s ire is angered. As you’ve already stated the obvious less than half the hull is under the waves meaning that it’ll only be a matter of time before it topples over in the same manner as the ill fated Concordia ship! I think I’d rather save my pennies, and go to Universal Studios where you’re at least on dry land even when you’re in a vessel.