Here is some Tonnage!!

[[dc]Blade]

This is one big sea going monster:yep:
http://members.tripod.com/jahre_viking/index.html

[Yahoshua]

I think even a full spread of torps may take a while to bring her down......damn that's a big boat.

[Heibges]

Holy Jeebus!

Yeah, that is a big.

I work near the Golden Gate Bridge, so I always practive my range and AOB estimation on the big boats passing under it.

And as a bonus, I get so see what 400 yd visibility looks like with the heavy fog we get too. :lol:

[nikimcbee]

I think we'll need a bigger processor to compute the AOB on this one.

[Camaero]

My god what a nice target!

[SUBMAN1]

I think even a full spread of torps may take a while to bring her down......damn that's a big boat.

I think one torp would sink her pretty fast. That thing is an accident waiting to happen. Here is your first clue:

...and carries 4.2 million barrels of crude oil, which is separated from the ocean by a 3.5-cm hull.

3.5 cm is pretty pathetic. I'm waiting for the day this thing snaps in half.

-S

[Camaero]

Those poor little sea creatures... :cry:

[bookworm_020]

I wonder how big a boom she woul make with my torpedo's setting her off?:hmm:

[Reaves]

...and carries 4.2 million barrels of crude oil, which is separated from the ocean by a 3.5-cm hull.
3.5 cm is pretty pathetic. I'm waiting for the day this thing snaps in half.

-S



Who the flying duck designed this thing? You'd think on a ship that big holding that much oil they'd make the hull a bit stronger. :nope:

[P_Funk]

Its so big that you wouldn't even need to aim. Forget AOB.

[August]

...and carries 4.2 million barrels of crude oil, which is separated from the ocean by a 3.5-cm hull.
3.5 cm is pretty pathetic. I'm waiting for the day this thing snaps in half.

-S


Who the flying duck designed this thing? You'd think on a ship that big holding that much oil they'd make the hull a bit stronger. :nope:

I thought all new tankers were supposed to be double hulled?

[kiwi_2005]

I dont see any vikings walking around?

[Oberon]

Hate to break it to you guys, but Kapitan's already sunk it in the English Channel....not with torpedoes though....
He was piloting it at the time... :lol:

[HunterICX]

:lol: Torps?!

Some ignition bombs and a tall boy will do the trick just fine with a big bang:up:

[bradclark1]

I thought all new tankers were supposed to be double hulled?
It was originaly built in 1979. Has had 2(?) extensions added.
Following the Exxon Valdez incident, the United States has mandated that all supertankers entering United States waters be double hulled by 2015. The European Union has similar legislation requiring all tankers entering their waters to be double hulled by 2010.

[Kapitan]

Dont want to piss on the bonfire here but the jahre viking has been renamed and also does not go to sea any more she is a floating storage facility in dubai or abu dhabi i forget what one but some where i the region.

The single hulled tanker is not allowed to come within 50 miles of the coast of the USA and Canada and theres also talks about banning it from all european waters, that occoured after the prestige incident on death coast back in 2001.

there is only a handful of terminals in which this vessel can safly dock and unload and load 2 of them are in the gulf the rest america and one in brazil (near to where the biggest ore carrier comes in the berge sthal).

i dont think she will ever return to sea again likely in a few years we probably be hearing of her scrapping.

also im surprised that the jahre company of norway hasnt banned the site as them pictures belong to them and are all copy righted.

[bradclark1]

Knock Nevis – former Jahre Viking – was converted to a Floating Storage and Offloading (FSO) unit in 2004 at Dubai Dry Docks (UAE) and installed on the Al Shaheen field for Mærsk Qatar the same year.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/jahre-viking.htm

[Respenus]

Its so big that you wouldn't even need to aim. Forget AOB.

That's the best joke I've heard in a while.

[swifty]

Basically she is a piece of junk.
- Original owner would not take deliver due to vibration problems.
- Bombed and sunk by Iraq.
- Multiple owners multiple names: Knock Nevis, Seawise Giant, Happy Giant, and Jahre Viking. (very bad luck to rename a ship)

This sums every thing up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knock_Nevis

This just go to show big isn't better. In fact it's one headache after another.

[[dc]Blade]

Yup and the darn thing cant sail through the english channel because shes so fat she cant squese through the dover stright!!:o actualy its her draft that stops here aparantley!

[SUBMAN1]

Blade']Yup and the darn thing cant sail through the english channel because shes so fat she cant squese through the dover stright!!:o actualy its her draft that stops here aparantley!

SO that is why Kapitan sunk her in there

[Kapitan]

Not true berge shtal manages it and she has the same draft as the knock nevis its because she is so slow she causes a big navigational hazard to all other ships in the area (ferries and what not).

[SUBMAN1]

Not true berge shtal manages it and she has the same draft as the knock nevis its because she is so slow she causes a big navigational hazard to all other ships in the area (ferries and what not).

Are you really saying that you just can't manage such a large vessel? :p

Just stiring the pot a little:

http://www.ferrarapan.com/assets/images/stirring_pot2.gif

-S

[Oberon]

Not true berge shtal manages it and she has the same draft as the knock nevis its because she is so slow she causes a big navigational hazard to all other ships in the area (ferries and what not).

Are you really saying that you just can't manage such a large vessel? :p

Just stiring the pot a little:

http://www.ferrarapan.com/assets/images/stirring_pot2.gif

-S

:o :doh:

Have you seen his shipping record?!?!? Not even the Kriegsmarine sunk as many ships as he has!! :arrgh!: :lol:

(j/k Kap :up: )

[[dc]Blade]

Lets see if we can find the next biggest ship using this one as a benchmark, no oil rigs :88)

Good hunting!!

[Kapitan]

so ive had a few dozen ships go down on me doesnt make me a bad skipper :D

[HunterICX]

so ive had a few dozen ships go down on me doesnt make me a bad skipper :D

same goes here for aircraft, I've crashlanded and crashed many aircrafts...but that doesnt make me a bad pilot does it :lol:

[Jimbuna]

so ive had a few dozen ships go down on me doesnt make me a bad skipper :D

But a one to be very wary of :lol: :up:

[SUBMAN1]

so ive had a few dozen ships go down on me doesnt make me a bad skipper :D
same goes here for aircraft, I've crashlanded and crashed many aircrafts...but that doesnt make me a bad pilot does it :lol:

No, just a horrible one.

[Konovalov]

Bernard in his Type VII U-boat would ram the huge tanker. It's the only way to be sure. ;)

[DreadWing]

Another big one!

http://img462.imageshack.us/img462/1450/pierreguillaumattf7.th.jpg (http://img462.imageshack.us/img462/1450/pierreguillaumattf7.jpg)

[Camaero]

so ive had a few dozen ships go down on me doesnt make me a bad skipper :D
same goes here for aircraft, I've crashlanded and crashed many aircrafts...but that doesnt make me a bad pilot does it :lol:

No, just a horrible one.

Hey, as long as the man still has full use of both his legs (or at least one of them) then he is one fine pilot I say!

[Etienne]

Basically she is a piece of junk.
- Multiple owners multiple names: Knock Nevis, Seawise Giant, Happy Giant, and Jahre Viking. (very bad luck to rename a ship)

That superstition is going the way of the dodo, with more and more ship names following the company's naming pattern. It just wouldn't do for Globeship to operate the Transmar Courage, wouldn't it? The last ship I was on has had at least four names over a twenty year carreer; wasn't particularly unlucky. (You could see the welding tacks to paint at least three company names on the hull, and an extra set of load line)

Just walk along a dock and see how many ship have a new name painted over the welded one.

In fact, of the seven ships I've worked on, two have had a word added to their name or their designation letters changed and two have had a complete name change. Three had been reflagged in the course of their carreer...

Back on topic, that site is pretty old; it still refers to RCI's Eagle class cruise ship. Nobody calls them that anymore, that I know of anyway.

And 3.5 cm is pretty thick for hull plating. The hull plating doesn't play a big part in keeping the boat in one piece, and there's no need to armor a supertanker!

[DreadWing]

You could always deck her over and use her as a logistics hub. Could probably accommodate more than a dozen C-130s :hmm:

[Kapitan]

You could always deck her over and use her as a logistics hub. Could probably accommodate more than a dozen C-130s :hmm:

They have plenty of airports around why use a ship just complicates things and makes it more dangerous, use the hulk for an oil storage tank and then scrap her.

[Rilder]

Thats a pimpmobile if I ever saw one.