Team Honolulu plan on using this super tanker for the evacuation of Honolulu
Knock Nevis
The largest super-tanker built ever is named Knock Nevis. It is well known as Seawise Giant, Happy Giant or Jahre Viking, but with changing of ship-owners and its function are coming new names. Now the vessel is operating as a storage tank to the platforms in Qatar. That was dictated, because of its large measurements. The vessel has a deadweight of 565,000 metric tons, a length of 458 meters and a beam of 69 meters. When it is fully loaded it cannot pass through the English channel, which is 32 miles wide, and what about Suez Channel or Panama Channel. That is why, the ship-owner decided to use it as a immobile storage tank offshore in the Mexican Bay.
The story for building this vessel is very interesting. It was designed to be the largest super-tanker built ever, when it was ordered. But just some months after starting of the work for building this vessel the owner, decided that sthis ship is too small and added 87 thousands tones more to its deadweight...
Distance between Honolulu and San Francisco
Distance in miles: 1147
Distance in km: 1846
5 comments:
Wow! For one thing this is going to go way too slow and will take foreveer to get to you destination. I really don't think that there is a real motor that can make this go fast enough to get to your destination. Even if you do use a slow boat you are going to have to make it bigger for food and water and then it would go slower.
Actually the knock nevis travels at a speed of about 13 knots. Which is around 24 kmp. We figured an aproxiamate travel time of 3 days. And the knock nevis is powered with an engine that is very sufficient, and the food for that would not be to high
I applaud you for proving me wrong but still if you could find a faster engine with the same efficiency than that would be great!!!
I hardly think that throwing in a small environmental engine will make a difference with this size of vessel. As much as i would like to save the environment. Ships half this size use about 6 engines with 47000 horsepower, power that nothing under these surcumstances that is environmental can provide.
awesome ship!
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