<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2c6342c0-81d3-4564-97b4-04284b75be6a/2E37D2E7-C954-4469-AD2B-E66341B46E48/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/2006/12/biggest-ships-in-world-part-2.html" href="http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/2006/12/biggest-ships-in-world-part-2.html" style="font-size: 11px;">thrillingwonder.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/2006/12/biggest-ships-in-world-part-2.html"><BR /><BR /><SPAN><B>4. Supertanker Knock Nevis/ Jahre Viking</B></SPAN><B><BR />- big ship with a big story</B><BR /><BR /><A href="http://static.flickr.com/141/319385688_b7e7ae6a45_o.jpg" aiotitle="Cruise%20Ships%2C%20Cruise%20Travel"><IMG border="0" alt="Cruise%20Ships%2C%20Cruise%20Travel" src="http://static.flickr.com/141/319385688_b7e7ae6a45.jpg" /></A><BR /><A href="http://static.flickr.com/125/319385686_f3d23e9892_o.jpg" aiotitle="Cruise%20Ships%2C%20Cruise%20Travel" aiotarget="false"><IMG border="0" alt="Cruise%20Ships%2C%20Cruise%20Travel" src="http://static.flickr.com/125/319385686_f3d23e9892.jpg" /></A><BR /><DIV>(Photo collection Dag Bjerke, via <A href="http://supertankers.topcities.com/id112.htm">Supertankers</A>)</DIV><BR /><DIV>This is the king of all supertankers, and possibly the biggest ship ever constructed (see French tankers on page 1, competing for this title). However, it is certainly the BIGGEST SHIP still in operation (albeit as a "floating storage and offloading unit" only). There is also a larger-than-life story associated with that ship.</DIV><BR />First of all, it had more pseudonyms than Alexandre Dumas: <BR />- "Seawise Giant"<BR />- "Porthos"<BR />- "Happy Giant"<BR />- "Jahre Viking"<BR /><DIV>- "Knock Nevis"</DIV><BR /><DIV>Built in Japan in 1979 for a Greek shipping magnate, who went bankrupt shortly thereafter, she was sold to the Hong Kong owner, who promptly increased her length even more. In 1981 <B>"The Seawise Giant"</B> was born, biggest among ships.</DIV><BR />To give you some idea of her size, compare with London Bridge:<BR /><A href="http://static.flickr.com/133/319388001_7320bb10db_o.jpg"><IMG border="0" alt="Cruise%20Ships%2C%20Cruise%20Travel" src="http://static.flickr.com/133/319388001_7320bb10db_o.jpg" /></A><BR />with Empire State Building<BR /><A href="http://static.flickr.com/136/319385690_c574111a01_o.jpg"><IMG border="0" alt="Cruise%20Ships%2C%20Cruise%20Travel" src="http://static.flickr.com/136/319385690_c574111a01_o.jpg" /></A><BR />and Eiffel Tower:<BR /><A href="http://static.flickr.com/135/319387073_595cfb7446_o.jpg"><IMG border="0" alt="Cruise%20Ships%2C%20Cruise%20Travel" src="http://static.flickr.com/135/319387073_595cfb7446.jpg" /></A></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2E37D2E7-C954-4469-AD2B-E66341B46E48/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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