List of the largest ships in the world
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The Pioneering Spirit , BRZ for the largest ship in the world
Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller , the longest ship in the world in 2013/14
The later TI Asia , type ship of the largest tankers in the world
This article lists the largest and longest ships in the world.
The largest ships according to Art
Note 1The TI Europe and her sister ship, the TI Oceania , are the largest double-hull tankers in the world. Two other sister ships, the TI Asia and the TI Africa , were converted into stationary offshore platforms.
Note 2The years Viking oil tanker was formerly the largest and longest ship in the world; it was later converted into an FSO , a stationary offshore platform , and was given the name Knock Nevis . The Pierre Guillaumat was the largest tanker built in one piece.
After the Viking years and the 4 ships of the Batillus class had been scrapped , the container ships of the Emma Mærsk class were the longest ships in the world until 2013.
In terms of gross tonnage (GT), the pipelayer Pioneering Spirit is the largest ship in the world.
Ships with outstanding dimensions
A selection of partly historical ships which (in their time) are or were among the largest ships of their kind. The ships are sorted in the table according to their length, but can be sorted according to any category using the black double triangles on a gray background next to the column heading.
| Surname | class | Art | Specialty | GRT | GT | Piss / t | Length / m | Width / m | Year (start of duty) |
status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prelude FLNG | FLNG platform | Floating, self-maneuvering platform. Not a ship in the strict sense of the word | - | 300,000 | 600,000 | 488.00 | 74.00 | 2017 | in service | |
| Years of Viking | Tanker , single-walled / later FSO | (After conversion) longest ship ever built; later used as an FSO (storage and transhipment station) | - | 260.941 | 647.955 | 458.45 | 68.80 | 1979 | scrapped | |
| Pierre Guillaumat | Tanker , single-walled | Until 2014 it was the longest ship built “in one piece” | 274,838 | - | 630,962 | 414.23 | 63.05 | 1977 | scrapped | |
| MOL triumph | MOL 20,000 TEU type | Container Ship | 2017 largest container ship for a short time by GT and number of containers (TEU) | - | 199,000 | ? | 400.00 | 58.80 | 2017 | in service |
| Majestic Mærsk | Triple E class | Container Ship | From 2013 to 2014 longest container ship | - | 194,849 | ? | 399.00 | 59.00 | 2013 | in service |
| Pioneering spirit | Pipelayer | Work ship. Largest (by GT) ship ever built | - | 403,342 | 900,000 | 382.00 | 123.75 | 2014 | in service | |
| TI Europe | Hellespont-Alhambra class | Tanker , double-walled | Largest double hull tanker | - | 234.006 | ? | 380.00 | 68.00 | ? | in service |
| Nanny | Tanker , single-walled | Widest cargo ship ever built | - | 245.140 | ? | 364.04 | 79.04 | 1978 | Broken down in 2003 | |
| Symphony of the Seas | Oasis class | Cruise ship | Largest passenger ship (cruise ship) ever built (by GT) | - | 228.081 | 100,000 | 361.011 | 65.68 o.a. | 2018 | in service |
| Vale Brasil | Valemax class | Bulk carrier | Largest bulk carrier in the world (in terms of loading capacity and length) | - | 198.980 | ? | 362.00 | 65.06 | ? | in service |
| Queen Mary 2 | Passenger ship | Largest scheduled transatlantic liner. Also used as a cruise ship | - | 148,528 | 79,827 | 345.03 | 41.08 | 2004 | in service | |
| USS Enterprise | Aircraft carrier | Longest aircraft carrier and warship ever built | - | - | 75,704 | 342.30 | 78.30 | 1961 | 2012 out of service | |
| USS Nimitz | Nimitz class | Aircraft carrier | - | - | 97,000 | 332.85 | 76.80 | 1975 | in service | |
| Normandy | Passenger ship | The largest ship in the world in her time | 79,000 | - | 71,300 | 313.58 | 36.40 | 1935 | Capsized after a fire in 1942, later recovered and scrapped | |
| Fatherland | Imperator class | Passenger ship | The fatherland is still the largest ever driven under the German flag passenger ship and the largest coal-powered steamship history | 54,282 | - | ? | 289.56 | 30.48 | 1914 | Wrecked in 1938 |
| Boka Vanguard | Semi-submersible | Largest heavy lift carrier | - | 91,784 | ? | 275.00 | 78.75 | 2013 | in motion | |
| Titanic | Olympic class | Passenger ship | The largest ship in the world in her time. Due to the tragic sinking of one of the most famous and famous ships of all | 46,329 | - | 53,147 | 269.04 | 28.19 | 1912 | 1912 downfall |
| Tonsberg | Mark V class | Car transporter | Largest car transporter with a loading capacity of approx. 6,000 cars | - | 76,500 | 41,820 | 265.00 | 32.26 | ? | in service |
| Yamato | Yamato class | Battleship | Largest battleship ever built (by displacement and length) | - | - | 65,000 | 263.00 | 38.90 | 1941 | 1945 sunk |
| HMS Hood | Battle cruiser | Largest and longest battle cruiser between the two world wars. Was sunk by the Bismarck . | - | - | 42,600 | 262.30 | 32.00 | 1918 | Sunk in 1941 | |
| Bismarck | Bismarck class | Battleship | When it was commissioned, it was considered the world's largest and most powerful battleship. | - | - | 41,700 | 250.50 | 36.00 | 1939 | Sunk in 1941 |
| Stena Standinacica | RoPax 55 | ferry | Largest ferry by length | - | 64,039 | ? | 243,830 | 32.00 | ? | in service |
| Color Magic | ferry | Largest ferry to BRZ | - | 75,156 | ? | 223.75 | 35.00 | In motion | ||
| Cristóbal Colón | Hopper excavator | - | - | ? | 78,000 | 223.00 | 41.00 | ? | in service | |
| Great Eastern | Sailing steamer | largest ship ever built in its time (until 1901) | 18,915 | - | 32,000 | 211.00 | 23.50 | 1858 | Wrecked in 1889 | |
| Ulysses | ferry | - | - | 50,938 | 27,425 | 209.02 | 31.20 | 2001 | in service | |
| Hughes Glomar Explorer | Salvage ship | - | - | 27,686 | 63,000 | 188.70 | 35.30 | ? | Wrecked in 2015 | |
| Club Med 2 | Motor sailing ship | - | - | 19,983 | ? | 187.00 | 20.00 | ? | in service | |
| Azzam | Motor yacht | Longest private motor yacht in the world | ? | ? | ? | 180.0 | 20.80 | 2013 | in service | |
| Dmitri Donskoy | Typhoon class | Submarine | Largest (nuclear) submarine ever built (in terms of displacement and length) | - | - | 23,200 | 172.80 | 23.30 | 1981 | in service |
| 50 Let Pobedy | Arktika class | Icebreaker | Largest and most powerful icebreaker | - | 23,439 | 25,840 | 159.60 | 30.00 | 2007 | in service |
| France | Sailing ship aux. / Sailing ship | Sailing ship initially with engines; after expansion of the engines (1919) largest sailing ship after BRT | 5,633 | - | 10,710 | 146.5 | 16.90 | 1911 | stranded | |
| Prussia | Sailing ship | The Prussia was to commissioning of the luxury cruise ship Royal Clipper in 2000 the only ever built five-masted full ship and reached 30 square sails and the maximum in the number of sails. She is one of the largest sailing ships in shipping history. | 5,081 | - | 11,650 | 147.00 | 16.34 | 1902 | stranded | |
| Royal Clipper | Sailing ship aux. | - | - | 4,425 | ? | 133.74 | 16.28 | ? | in service | |
| Stena Explorer | HSS 1500 class | Ferry catamaran | - | - | 19,638 | ? | 126.60 | 40.00 | ? | in service |
| Far Samson | tractor | Strongest tugboat (pile pulling force 423 tons) | - | 14,740 | - | 121.5 | 26.00 | 2009 | in service | |
| Hermann Marwede | Rescue cruiser | Largest rescue cruiser after BRZ | - | ? | 404 | 46.00 | 10.25 | 2003 | in service | |
| Baron of Renfrew | One way ship | The largest wooden ship ever built. As a one-way ship, it was only built for a single voyage, after which the ship was used as lumber. | 5,294 | - | ? | 110.80 | 18.59 | 1825 | Stranded and scrapped in 1825 |
See also
- List of the largest wooden ships in the world
- List of cruise lines
- List of the largest sailing ships in the world
literature
- Joachim W. Pein: Giants of the Seas. The largest tankers in the world. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2011.
Note and individual evidence
- ↑ VIDEO: Biggest ship in the world, but not Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller. Retrieved March 9, 2014 .