General Characteristic Tonnage: 260,941GT (214,793 NT) Length: 458.45m (1,504.10ft) Beam: 68.8m (225.72ft) Draft: 29.8m (97.77ft) Capacity: 564,650DWT The Knock Nevis is a floating storage and offloading unit (FSO) currently owned by the Norwegian company Fred Olsen Production. The unit was previously a supertanker and as such held the record for the world's largest ship. As a tanker the ship was known under the names Seawise Giant , Happy Giant , and Jahre Viking . EVEN in an age of superlatives, she continues as the ultimate superlative, a ship so huge that she would comfortably swallow up India’s largest ship, the 25,000-tonne aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, in her holds. On land, at 485.46 metres from tip to tip, she would dwarf the world’s tallest man-made land structure, the 424-metre Petronas tower of Malaysia. At sea she is ful
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