The biggest ships. The largest ship in the world: photo

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

When Noah was ordered to build the ark, he received all the necessary design data and technological instructions. Judging by the divine specifications, the ark was three hundred cubits long, fifty wide, and thirty high. Impressive, of course, but measuring the modern largest ship in the world with elbows is a very tedious task. The length of the Prelude FLNG is 929 and a half Egyptian royal cubits.

Floating LNG plant

The title of the largest floating object is a passing thing, the purpose of such structures can be very different, and when experts see a reasonable limit, it is unclear.

A hull for the floating plant Prelude FLNG was built for Shell at a South Korean shipyard. Its purpose will be the production of natural gas at the bottom of the ocean, its processing into a liquefied state and pumping to special gas carriers. As of mid-2015, this is the largest ship in the world. According to the plan, in 2017 this monster should stand somewhere off the coast of Australia and with might and main extract blue fuel from the bowels. It can store as much of it as the average metropolis needs for a year.

The length of this vessel is 488m, width - 74 m, 260 thousand tons of steel were used for the construction - this is more than for the twin towers of the shopping center in New York, in terms of displacement it is equal to six aircraft carriers. Prelude FLNG could be a real prelude to a whole flotilla of such vessels, because experts talk about the significant advantages of this method of gas production - economic and environmental.

Dockwise Vanguard

In January 2012, a Concordia-class cruise ship struck rocks off the Italian island of Giglio, hit a hole and capsized and sank. More than 30 people died. Of the passenger ships, it was the largest ship in the world to have suffered such a disaster. When it was necessary to "pick up your garbage", that is, to transport the Costa Concordia away, one of the largest and most unusual ships in the world came to the rescue.

Dockwise Vanguard is the largest vessel in the world designed to carry extra bulky and heavy cargo. It belongs to the semi-submersible type. To accommodate cargo on a huge deck (the overall dimensions of the ship: length - 275 m, width - 79 m), special ballast tanks are filled with outboard water, and the ship sinks to the desired depth. The cargo is towed and held above the ship, which, as it floats, takes the weight on board. The cargo is rigidly fixed, and the ship follows the desired route at a speed of about 12 knots. The spectacle of a hard worker ship transporting huge oil platforms thousands of miles away will impress anyone. Therefore, ship transportationConcordia to Genoa, where it was disposed of, is "seeds" for Dockwise Vanguard.

Container ship

The more containers can be loaded on deck and delivered across the seas and oceans as quickly as possible, the more profitable such transportation will be. Therefore, such ships occupy the first places among ships in terms of size and power of power plants.

For 2015, the championship is held by CSCL Globe, built in South Korea and owned by a carrier from China. Its length is 400 m, width - 58.6 m, carrying capacity is 184,605 tons.

For the sake of providing an amazing speed for such a colossus of 16 knots, the world's largest internal combustion engine with a capacity of 77,200 horsepower, as high as a five-story building, was manufactured for the ship. It is planned to manufacture several such container ships. And these will be the largest ships in the world, capable of transporting at one time so many containers in which you can hide the property of the inhabitants of a small town.

Valemax

Among the ships, which, due to their purpose, are supposed to impress with their size, there have always been bulk carriers and ore carriers - bulk carriers, that is, loaded in bulk. 12,000 huge mining trucks are needed to fill the largest ore-carrying ships in the world - that's about 400 tons.

362 meters long and 65 meters wide make Vale Brasil type ore carriers a very noticeable object even in the Atlantic and Pacific expanses. Especially sinceBrazilian ore suppliers are faced with the task of increasing the profitability of their products when delivered by sea, and they have already ordered a whole flotilla of bulk carriers of this series from the shipyards of Southeast Asia, and soon the Atlantic will be overcrowded…

Oasis of the Seas

Today, the infamous Titanic can only truly impress with its size in a movie made by a great director. It is five times smaller than the largest passenger ship in the world, Oasis of the Seas, built in Finland, operated by an American cruise company and flying the flag of the Bahamas.

Not all ports can accept this ship, some it cannot enter without causing or receiving serious damage. The length of the hull is 360 m, the maximum width is 61 m, the height from the water surface to the top of the pipe is like a 25-storey building. Oasis in the Ocean is the largest cruise ship in the world, designed to provide 6,400 passengers with an unforgettable experience. For this, everything is provided on the ship: the world's largest cruise casino, a water park, a theater in which shows go on without interruption, surf pools, a golf course, and sports grounds. For lovers and those who love solitude, a park with real trees and shrubs has been planted, where you can safely find a place to stay together or relax alone.

In order to adequately serve passengers and the largest ship in the world, the number of crew has been increased to 2165 people. It seems that everyone will find a job on such an ark.

Floating City Freedom Ship

Unlike all previous ships already plowing the expanses of the seas, Ship Freedom is just an idea, although the company involved in this project has already announced that it is ready to start construction. The ship-floating city will be able to accommodate 50,000 permanent residents and about 30,000 guests. It is supposed to create an infrastructure similar to that necessary for a small town, with all the facilities for full-fledged work and recreation. Residential and working areas, schools, stadiums, swimming pools will be located on numerous decks. Park areas with real green spaces will make it comfortable for all residents to be permanently offshore.

When completed, it will definitely be the largest ship in the world. The photos, where you can see the alleged appearance of the future ark, amaze with the scope of the idea. At the upper level, it is planned to place an airfield capable of receiving serious airliners. To provide a floating city, a whole network of solar and wind power plants will be built.

Design length - 1370 m, total number of levels - 25. There is no suitable harbor on the planet for such a boat, so "Freedom" will be in constant circumnavigation.

Our Blue Planet

According to one of the versions of the origin of life on Earth, all living things came out of the water. Considering how many people cannot imagine life without the sea, either in business or on vacation, it can be assumed that the top of the largest sea vessels will be constantly updated.