Sea Giant went to the scrapyard in 2003:
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@ombugge , This one had a heavier deadweight, was wider & longer but a slightly lower GT. You’d probably perfer the port of registry’s of this one too. I would call this one the biggest but to each their own.
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I was planning a post about that one next, but you beat me to it.
Yes I’m fully aware that the Seawise Giant was bigger. I saw her many times while she was in Singapore for repairs, after being hit by Iraqi Exocet rockets during the Iran/Iraq War (May 1988)
She was anchored near Larak Island, off Iran and used as a storage tanker for Crude oil transported from Kharg Island and transhipped to VLCC for transport to the world market.
This is what she looked like when arriving in Singapore as a burnt out wreck:
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She had a lot of sludge in the tanks on arrival which ended up being a headache, controversy and scandal. (I think I have posted on this here somewhere earlier)
The sludge ended up being stored in bags on barges.
When repairs at Keppel FELS were completed in 1991 she left the yard as the Happy Giant, but had to proceed to Dubai for drydocking, as the dock at Keppel FELS were occupied with rig hulls under construction.
PS> The bags of sludge were loaded back onboard the Happy Giant before departure, but she miraculously arrived in Dubai with clean deck and tanks.
She was sailing as a trading tanker for some years as Happy Giant and Jahre Viking:
she was sold to Fred Olsen (First Olsen Tankers AS) and became the Knock Navis, used as FSO off Qatar until being scrapped at Alang in 2010:
Source: This is what happened to the world’s biggest ship ever built
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A different kind of ship “demolition”, but just as terminal:
Amazing story of abandoned ships and tugs at Staten Island ship graveyard:
