The Pierre Guillaumat was built in 1977 at the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire in France , which was then part of the Alstom Group , and was delivered to the French shipping company Compagnie Nationale de Navigation (CNN) in October 1977 . It was the third ship of Batillus class , a series of four 550.000- dwt -Tankern. The first two were delivered to Societé Maritime Shell , Paris as Batillus in June 1976 and Bellamya in December 1976. The fourth ship did not enter service until 1979 as a Prairial . However, the Pierre Guillaumat was scrapped in 1983 after only six years, Batillus and Bellamya followed in 1985 and 1986, while the Prairial as the later Sea Giant was only scrapped in 2003.
operation area
Due to its gigantic dimensions, the Pierre Guillaumat's operational area was very limited from the start. She could not cross the Panama or the Suez Canal . Due to its particularly great draft , it could only call at a small number of the world ports , namely deep-water ports , and was therefore loaded and unloaded at offshore berths.
