Powerful Ships In The World :Largest Battleships

Powerful Ships In The World :Largest Battleships

Fastest Pacific Crossing

The Fastest crossing of the Pacific Ocean (4,840 nautical miles) was 6 days 1 hour 27 min by the containership Sea-Land Commerce (50,315 tons) from Yokohama, Japan to Long Beach, Calif in 1973, at an average speed of 33.27 knots (38.31 mph).

Southernmost Sail

The Farthest south ever reached by a ship was achieved on Feb is 15, 1912, when the Frame reached latitude 78° 41' S, off the Antarctic cost.

Largest Passenger Liner

 The largest liner afloat and longest liner ever built is the Norway of 63,379 tons and 1,035 ft in length. She was built as the France in 1961 and renamed after purchase in June 1979 by Knut Kloster of Norway . Her second maiden voyage was from Southampton on May 7, 1980. The Queen Elizabeth 2 set a "turn-around" record of 8 hours 3 min in NYC on May 17, 1972. In her 1980 World Cruise, the price of her major site was $212,700 each. 

The england Queen Elizabeth, no longer afloat, was the largest ever built with 83,673 gross tons but a length of 1,03l ft, 4 n shorter than the Norway.

Largest Battleships

The largest battleship now is the USS New Jersey, with a full-load dis placement of 59,000 tons and an overall length of 888 ft. She was the last fire support ship on active service and was decommissioned on Dec 17,1969.

 The Japanese battleships Yamato (completed on Dec 16, 1941 and sunk southwest of Kyushu by US planes on Apr 7, 1945) and Musashi (sunk in the Philippine Sea by 11 bombs and 16 torpedoes on Oct 24, 1944) were the largest battleships ever commissioned each with a full load displacement of 72,809 tons. With an overall length of 863 ft, a beam of 127 ft and a full-load draught of 35 1/2 ft, they mounted nine 18.1-in guns in three triple turrets. Each gun weighed 181 tons and was 75 ft in length, firing a 3,260-lb projectile.

Largest Aircraft Carrier

The warships with the largest full-load displacement in the world are the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and Dwight D. Eisenhower at 91,400 tons. They are 1,092 ft in length overall and have a speed well in excess of 30 knots with their nuclear-powered 280,000 shaft hp reactors. They have to be refuelled after about 900,000 miles steaming. Their complement is 6,100 The total cost of the Eisenhower, commissioned on Oct 18, 1977 exceeded $2 billion excluding the more than 90-plus aircraft carried. The USS Enterprise is, however, 1,102 ft long and thus Ae e longest warship ever built.

Fastest Destroyer

The highest speed attained by a destroyer was 45,02 knots (51.84 mph) ihe 3,120-ton French destroyer Le Terrible in 1935. She was built in Blainville and powered by four Yarrow small-tube boilers and two Rateau geared turbines 100,000 shaft hp. She was removed from the time active list at the end of 1957.

Longest, Fastest and Deepest Submarine 

The $1.250 million nuclear powered submarine USS Ohio was due to a operational service in late 1980, with 24 Trident I missiles of 4,600 - mile range and a submerged displacement of 18,700 tons. She is 560 ft in length. The USSR Delta II  class submarines, first reported in Nov 1973 with 16 SSN missiles may be even larger. Four or five were in service by Jan 1977, although larger submarines were reported under construction.

The fastest submarines are the US Navy's tear-drop hulled nuclear vessels of the Los Angeles class. They have been listed officially as capable of a speed of "30 plus knots" but the true figure is believed to be dramatically  higher. The first 4 were commissioned in 1975-76, with an additional 19 in 1979-80.

 The two US Navy vessels able to descend 12,000 ft  are the 3-man Trieste II (DSV 1 ) of 303 tons, recommissioned in Nov 1973 and the DSV 2 (deep submergence vessel) USS Alvin The Trieste II was reconstructed from the record-breaking bathyscaphe Trieste, but without the Krupp-built sphere, which enabled it to descend to 35,820 ft.

Largest Barges 

Two RoRo (roll-on roll-of) barges of 16,700 tons and 580-ft length each, owned and operated by the Crowley Maritime Corp of San Francisco are currently the largest. They carry up to 376 trailer trucks each with tri-level loading, between Florida and Puerto Rico. The company has on the drawing board plans for 700-ft long barges for 1982.

LARGEST BARGE 

This roll on roll-off barge is one of the two that can carry 376 trailer trucks.

Largest Tanker

 The largest tanker and ship of any kind is the French Pierre Guillauma of 555,031 tons deadweight (274,838 grt), completed for Compagnie Nationale de Navigation on Nov 9, 1977. She is 1,359 ft long with a beam of 206.9 ft, has a draught of 93.8 ft, and is powered by 4 turbines delivering 65,000 shp. She can maintain a speed of 18.4 mph. Bellamya (completed for Societe Maritime Shell on Dec 31, 1976) is 275,276 grt but 553,662 dwt.

Largest Cargo Vessel

The largest vessel capable of carrying dry cargo is the Liberian ore/ oil carrier  World Gala of 282,450 dwt with a length of 1,109 ft and beam or 179 ft, owned by Liberian Trident Transports Inc, completed in 1973.

Most Powerful Tugs

The largest and most powerful tugs are the Wolraad Waltemade and her sister ship John Ross (2,822 grt) rated at 19,200 hp and with a bollard pull of 172.7 tons at 90% of full power. They have an overall length of 310 ft 5 in and a beam of 49 ft 10 in. They were built to handle the largest tankers, and were completed respectively in Apr 1976 (Leith, Scotland) and in Oct 1976 (Durban, South Africa).

Largest Car Ferry

The largest car and passenger ferry is the 30.5-knot, 24,600 grt GTS Finnjet which entered service across the Baltic between Helsinki and Travemünde, W Germany May 13, 1977. She can carry 350 cars and 1,532 passengers.

Largest Hydrofoil

The largest naval hydrofoil is the 212-ft-long Plainview (310 tons full load), launched by Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company at Seattle, Wash June 28, 1965. She has a service speed of 50 knots (57 mph).

 Three 165-ton Supramar PTS 150 Mk III hydrofoils, carrying 250 passengers at 40 knots, ply the Malmo-Copenhagen crossing between Sweden and Denmark. They were built by Westermoen Hydrofoil Ltd of Mandal, Norway.

 A 500-ton wing ground effect vehicle capable of carrying 900 tons has heen reported in the USSR.

Most Powerful Dredger

The most powerful dredger is the 468.4-ft-long Prins der Nederlanden of 10,586 grt. Using two suction tubes, she can dredge 22,400 tons of sand from a depth of 115 ft in less than one hour.

Most Powerful icebreaker

The most powerful icebreaker is the USSR's 25,000-ton atomic powered icebreaker Arktika, able to smash through ice up to nearly 13 ft .On Aug 9, 1977 she sailed from Murmansk and reached the NorthPole at 2 a.m.  GMT on Aug 17. The largest converted icebreaker is the 1,007-ft-long SS Manhattan (43,000 shp). which was converted by the Humble Oil Co into a 150,000-ton icebreaker with an armored prow 69 ft 2 in long. She made a double voyage through the Northwest Passage in arctic Canada from Aug 24 to Nov 12, 1969. The Northwest Passage was first navigated by Roald Amundsen (Norway) in the sailing sloop Gjöa on July 11, 1906.

Most Expensive Yacht

King Khalid Saudi Arabian 212-ft $10 million royal yacht was up staged as the most expensive in 1979 by a five-deck 282-footer built by he Benetti Shipyard, Viaveggio, Italy for a reputed $24 million to the order of Adnan Khashoggi. It has a helicopter and 5 speed boats.

Largest Collision

The closest approach to an irresistible force striking an immovable object occurred on Dec 16, 1977, 22 miles off the coast of southern Africa, vhen the tanker Venoil (330,954 dwt) struck her sister ship Venpet 390,349 dwt)

Largest Whale Factory 

The largest whale factory ship is the USSR's Sovietskaya Ukraina (32,034 gross tons),  with a summer dwt of 46,000 tons, completed in Oct 1959.  She is 713.6 ft in length and has a 94 n-3 in- beam.

Deepest Anchorage

The deepest anchorage ever achieved is one of 24,600 in the mid-At lantic Romanche Trench by Capt Jacques-Yves Cousteau's research ves sel Calypso, with a 5 1/2 -mile-long nylon cable, on July 29, 1956.

Largest Wreck

The largest ship ever wrecked has been the 312,186-dwt VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier) Energy Determination which blew up and broke two in the Straits of Hormuz on Dec 12, 1979. Her full value was $58 million.

Greatest Roll

The ultimate in rolling was recorded in heavy seas of Coos Bay, Ore Nov 13, 1971 when the US Coast Guard motor lifeboat Intrepid made 360-degree roll.

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