

The vessel was too hard for opperation, because the restriction of Suez Canal and Panama Canal, are making the expences about long voyages too big and the profits of Knock nevis were too little for such large ship. After renaming of Jahre Viking to Knock Nevis on 2004, the vessel is anchoren in the Persian Bay, near Qatar, where is used as sailing storage tank. This was the last sailing name of the ship.

The last name of the ship and most famous one was Jahre Viking. The vessel Knock Nevis, was built with the name Seawise Giant, and changed her name some times. In spite of this Knock Nevis is a symbol in shipping and will all the time stay in the hearts of all ships fans. In all other competitison, just for example Gross Tonnage and Net Tonnage, the vessel is losing the first place from the Euronav and Overseas Super-tankers TI Europe, TI Asia and TI Oceania. So the vessel collected the whole 565,000 metric tons deadweight and now is the largest ULCC in the world. In spite of this fact, the ship-owner ordered to Knock Nevis to be added 87,000 thousand tones to the deadweight, with the idea this vessel to becaome some symbol of oil tankering and shipping at all.

The vessel was ordered into the ship-yard and idea about this vessel was to be the largest one built ever. The story about this is very interesting and very nice, in my own oppinion. The vessel Knock Nevis is the largest one in comparison with all other vessels from this type, while the character using is deadweight. The deadweight of the vessel is 565,000 metric tons, the length is 458 meters, beam of 69 meters and draft of 26.4 meters.
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The Jahre Viking / Knock Nevis can carry 560, 000 tonnes of cargo giving it a total ( full ) displacement of about 648, 000 tonnes.

From 1979 to 2004 she was owned by Loki Stream, at which point she was bought by First Olsen Tankers, renamed " Knock Nevis " and converted into a permanently moored storage tanker.From 2004 until August 2009 the massive supertanker, " Knock Nevis ", the largest ship built to date, was moored there as a floating storage and offloading unit ( FSO )., renamed " Knock Nevis ", and converted into a permanently moored storage tanker in the Qatar Al Shaheen oil field in the Persian Gulf. The Knock Nevis supertanker was the largest steam ship ever created, and the largest ship ever built before it was scrapped in 2010.The Knock Nevis was over 450 meters in length.
