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  Janneman: Schip van de week (6)
Het schip heeft een hele geschiedenis meegemaakt en is al ettelijke keren van naam veranderd, ik heb hierover volgend tekstje gevonden (zijn naam voordien was de Jahre Viking) :
Jahre Viking has had an interesting past during the course of which she has changed many hands.
Later, she changed hands yet again and was sold to tanker owner Jorgen Jahre for $ 39 million, she was then rechristened Jahre Viking.
users.telenet.be /jeantje/2006/02/schip-van-de-week-6.html   (473 words)

  
  Jahre Viking
She was built with a displacement of 480,000 tons deadweight It was launched in Japan at Sumitomo Heavy Industries Yard at Opera in 1975 as hull number 1016 and christened Seawise Giant.
During the Iran-Iraq war, T.T. Jahre Viking was hit by the Iraqis on 14 May 1988 while transiting the Hormuz Straits.
Later she was sold to Jorden Jahre for the sum of $39 Million.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/jahre-viking.htm   (451 words)

  
 The Tribune...Sunday Reading
Welcome aboard the TT Jahre Viking, a ship so huge that when fully laden she can not pass through the 32-mile-wide English channel that separates England from France, what to speak of the Suez and Panama canals.
After major conversions and repairs she was relaunched in 1991 as the TT Jahre Viking, quite simply the largest ship that set sail again.
In tacit recognition of this and her sheer size, the Jahre Viking has been designated in the class of ‘worst-case scenarios’ by the US Coast Guard, prompting strict international monitoring and compensatory vigilance on the part of her crew and a gobye to the occasional perk like a Singapore sling to a setting tropical sun.
www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99jul11/sunday/head3.htm   (773 words)

  
 Her Captains View Point
Later, she changed hands yet again and was sold to tanker owner Jorgen Jahre for $ 39 million; she was then re-christened Jahre Viking.
To my great regret, I do not think another vessel of the size of Jahre Viking will ever be built, as it is not financially viable considering the current new building cost, legislation of double hulls, and the demand of the crude oil.
Jahre Viking, has the deadweight of 564,763 MT and summer displacement have 647, 955 MT when laden with nearly 4.1 million barrels of crude oil, is crewed by Indian officers and Filipino seamen.
members.tripod.com /jahre_viking/id4.html   (1091 words)

  
 Jahre Viking
Although the Jahre Viking surpasses the tallest land structure, the 424-meter Petronas tower of Malaysia, is doesn’t surpass the tallest free-standing land structure in the world, the CN Tower in Toronto which measures up to 553 metres or 1,815 feet.
The Jahre Viking is the largest moving object ever build.
Jahre Viking might be longer than Troll A’s height, but when it comes to weight the story is different.
www.gadgetopia.com /post/3662   (1495 words)

  
 GMA: How Big is an Oil Tanker?
In comparison, the largest tanker in the world, the Jahre Viking, formally known as the Seawise Giant, is 1504 feet long and 226 feet wide.
These vessels are so large that crew members often use bicycles to travel from one point to another on the ship.
The largest oil tanker in the world, the Jahre Viking, is 1504 feet long.
octopus.gma.org /surfing/human/howbig.html   (472 words)

  
 Tanker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
See Exxon Valdez, Braer, Prestige, Torrey Canyon for examples of tankers that have caused oil spills.
The largest tanker in the world is the Jahre Viking.
A tanker is an aircraft used for in-flight refueling.
www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/t/ta/tanker.html   (154 words)

  
 Jahre Viking - ( Biggest Ship Ever, After Reconstruction )
The world largest ship, the 564,763 dwt Norwegian tanker Jahre Viking to be converted to FSO - DN.
The contract is for three years with an option for Maersk Oil for further two years.
"Jahre Viking", 564.763 DWT and "Saudi Glory", 276.000 DWT.
supertankers.topcities.com /id23.htm   (253 words)

  
 jahre viking   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The world’s largest ship, the 564,650-DWT crude oil tanker Jahre Viking arrived off Durban at the weekend and is undergoing cleaning and demucking of residuals in the tanks.
The 458.5m long Norwegian ship, which is owned by First Olsen Tankers Ltd, is providing some useful work for a number of local companies during the anticipated seven to day stay.
This is the second time Jahre Viking has used the Durban outer anchorage for this purpose, the previous occasion being in 2001.
www.ports.co.za /news/article_2004_01_13_4425.html   (174 words)

  
 Modern Ship Sizes - The Tiny Titanic
The largest ship afloat today is a tanker, and it is called the "Jahre Viking".
It is almost twice as long as the Titanic was and would probably weigh more than 12 times the Titanic when both were filled.
* The Jahre Viking was originally called the "Seawise Giant" as it left Japan shipyards.
www.rpsoft2000.com /shipsize.htm   (503 words)

  
 New Jersey Scuba Diver - Artifacts & Shipwrecks - Tanker
The T.T. Jahre Viking is a Norwegian-operated supertanker built in Japan 1976-79, formerly known as the Seawise Giant.
T.T. Jahre Viking has a deadweight of 564,763 metric tons and summer displacement of 647,955 metric tons when laden with nearly 4.1 million barrels of crude oil.
When fully loaded, she is too big to fit through the English Channel.
www.njscuba.net /artifacts/ship_tanker.html   (1368 words)

  
 Turks.US Daily News - $11-Billion 'Floating City' to be Made in Turkey Daily News
The Titanic, which stuck an iceberg during its maiden voyage, was 289.5 meters long, and the length of the super tanker Jahre Viking, the biggest floating object ever built, is 493 meters.
Freedom City; however, will be 1,417 meters long when complete, with a width of 246 meters and a height of 114,8 meters.
This translates into the creation of a ship that is about four times the size of the world's current largest floating object, the Jahre Viking.
www.turks.us /article.php?story=20050705095345754   (1197 words)

  
 STIHL und VIKING Händlersuche
Der STIHL und VIKING Fachhändler in Ihrer Nähe
Bei STIHL und VIKING haben Sie deshalb die Gewähr, dass der Gebrauchswert und die Freude an Ihrem Gerät über viele Jahre erhalten bleibt.
Wenn Sie einen Händler suchen der auch das Viking Produktsortiment (Rasenmäher, Aufsitzmäher,..) führt, bitte hier klicken.
ch.dealerlocator.stihl.com   (84 words)

  
 Hemispheres | 15 Facts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
They are dwarfed, however, by the immense Jahre Viking, a supertanker operated out of Norway.
Measuring 260,851 gross registered tons, the Jahre Viking is the world’s largest ship.
Phone rates range between $6 and $10 per minute on ships, but most have Internet cafés where rates are, on average, 70 cents per minute.
www.hemispheresmagazine.com /15facts/2001/cruising.htm   (777 words)

  
 Viking World Norway
We have made this compact version of our business plan to give you, through first hand information, the possibility to take part in building up the Viking monument for Norway.
Your participation will be valuated by the coming generations.
At the same time Viking World Norway is a business opportunity with a good profit and a high value for the company, based on its calculated future earnings.
www.vikingworldnorway.com /pages/contact.html   (67 words)

  
 Safety At Sea - Engineering Challenges
It has been calculated that to inspect a ship of this size a surveyor might have to climb 9,997 metres (Mount Everest is 8,848 metres high), examine steelwork with an area the equivalent of 1,500 tennis courts, and check 1,200 kilometres of welding - the distance between Copenhagen and Paris.
"The British Vigilance is a huge structure, not just a big ship: yet the biggest tanker in the world today is nearly twice as large: she is the Jahre Viking, of about 565,000 deadweight tons.
She is 69 metres wide and 458 metres long: stood on end, she would be 214 metres higher than the Canary Wharf Tower."
www.marinetalk.com /articles_HTML/21252O.html   (1018 words)

  
 GN Online: My World: A dream-come-true seaside story
Captain of T T Jahre Viking, the world's largest vessel and tanker
Having been a Master of Jahre Viking for the past ten years, there has gone an 'element of Capt. S.
Mohan' in the success and profitability of Jahre Viking.
www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=82296   (1415 words)

  
 Premantura - Restaurant Viking, Limski Fijord
Direkt am Fijord steht am Ufer ein terassenförmiger Betonbau der 70er Jahre - ebenfalls ein Restaurant - und leicht versetzt dahinter befindet sich das Viking.
Wie schon im letzten Jahr gab es hier mit Abstand die beste Muschelplatte.
Auch 2005 hatten wir die Muschelplatte im "Viking" fest eingeplant.
www.premantura.de /html/Essen_und_Trinken/Restaurants_in_der_Umgebung/Restaurant_Viking_Limski_Fijord.htm   (239 words)

  
 Google Earth Hacks Forums - View Single Post - Jahre Viking - Al-Shaheen Oilfields
Google Earth Hacks Forums - View Single Post - Jahre Viking - Al-Shaheen Oilfields
It is located in the middle of the Persian Gulf.
The 'Jahre Viking' now named 'Knock Nevis' is a floating storage and offloading unit in the Al-Shaheen field.
www.googleearthhacks.com /forums/showpost.php?p=33660&postcount=3   (52 words)

  
 The Liberty Ship, the T-2 ... and the World's Largest Tanker
What seems clear is that until the 1956 Suez War, Suez Canal limitations had effectively limited the size of tankers.
The largest tanker ever, the 564,763 dwt Jahre Viking was built in 1979 at Sumitomo as the Seawise Giant for legendary Hong Kong shipping magnate C.Y. Tung, father of C.H. Tung (Tung Chee-hwa), Chief Executive of the Hong Kong SAR.
The Jahre Viking is an astonishing 35.3 "T-2 equivalents," on a rough calculation!
www.marinelog.com /DOCS/cen4.html   (586 words)

  
 Satya
I followed their link to wikipedia and found the Knock Nevis which I knew as Jahre Viking.
I think my father has sailed aboard her (or the Jahre Trader).
The Google Sightseeing people may have found Berge Stahl according to the comments on their page.
www.livejournal.com /users/satyap   (1308 words)

  
 Legal Ramblings: Big ships and shipbreaking   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
This story in the New York Times describes the arrival of the Queen Mary 2, an enormous cruise liner.
But the article also mentioned the most behemoth of all behemoth ships: the appropriately named Jahre Viking, in all its hideous, metal-plated glory.
What's really striking about these ships, of course, is that at some point they die.
www.scwu.com /news/static/108286349474547.shtml   (462 words)

  
 Saudi books world's biggest tanker | Energy, Oil and Gas
Saudi Arabia: Sunday, May 18 - 2003 at 09:28
Saudi Arabia has booked the world's biggest oil tanker, the Jahre Viking, to transport 550,000 tonnes of oil to the USA for mid-July delivery, reported Reuters.
This represents an additional load from Saudi Aramco which owns and operates one of the world's largest fleets of oil tankers.
www.ameinfo.com /24013.html   (283 words)

  
 uscgconti
Our office responds to pollution, conducts oil and chemical waterfront facility inspections, and boards the barges and foreign flag cargo ships in our waters.
This is the M/V Jahre Viking, one of the worlds largest Ultra large oil tankers.
In the picture there are 2 Marine Inspectors and me (on the right) onboard the "Jahre Viking"----1500 Feet in Length!!
www.angelfire.com /al3/jeffscybercafe/coastie.html   (459 words)

  
 leviathans
A case in point is the largest ship on the face of the planet, the Jahre Viking
The Jahre Viking is presently the largest man-made moving object on the face of the planet 50ft taller than empire state building at 1504 foot long.
The holds could swallow St Pauls cathedral four times over.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/Franklyn_Roberts/merchnt.htm   (2112 words)

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