Mr Quatro
09-07-13, 01:00 PM
This is only a medium size ship compared to the newer container ships coming out and yet it is bigger than the USS Nitmiz.
I wonder how many conventional fish it would take to sink this baby?
http://media.thenewstribune.com/smedia/2013/07/11/09/52/YLOXN.AuSt.5.JPG
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/07/10/2673345/biggest-ship-yet-calls-on-port.html
A container ship longer and wider than a Navy aircraft carrier called Wednesday at the Port of Tacoma’s Washington United Terminal, setting a record for vessel size at the port.
The Zim Djibouti has a capacity of 10,000 container units, about 40 percent larger than the typical container vessel that calls on port terminals.
The container vessel is 1,145 feet long and 151 feet wide. The USS Nimitz is 1,090 feet long and 134 feet wide at the waterline although at the flight deck the Nimitz is 252 feet wide. The aircraft carrier is stationed at Naval Station Everett.
“Its length stretches more than twice the diameter of the Tacoma Dome and almost twice the height of the Space Needle,”
While the vessel is the largest that’s ever called here, its only a medium large vessel compared with some of the newer ships now coming on line.
Maersk Line, for instance, is scheduling the maiden voyage of the first of its “Triple E” container ships from Asia to Europe beginning Tuesday. That vessel, the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller, carries 18,000 container units.
The Triple E ships are 1,312 feet long and 194 feet wide.
I wonder how many conventional fish it would take to sink this baby?
http://media.thenewstribune.com/smedia/2013/07/11/09/52/YLOXN.AuSt.5.JPG
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/07/10/2673345/biggest-ship-yet-calls-on-port.html
A container ship longer and wider than a Navy aircraft carrier called Wednesday at the Port of Tacoma’s Washington United Terminal, setting a record for vessel size at the port.
The Zim Djibouti has a capacity of 10,000 container units, about 40 percent larger than the typical container vessel that calls on port terminals.
The container vessel is 1,145 feet long and 151 feet wide. The USS Nimitz is 1,090 feet long and 134 feet wide at the waterline although at the flight deck the Nimitz is 252 feet wide. The aircraft carrier is stationed at Naval Station Everett.
“Its length stretches more than twice the diameter of the Tacoma Dome and almost twice the height of the Space Needle,”
While the vessel is the largest that’s ever called here, its only a medium large vessel compared with some of the newer ships now coming on line.
Maersk Line, for instance, is scheduling the maiden voyage of the first of its “Triple E” container ships from Asia to Europe beginning Tuesday. That vessel, the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller, carries 18,000 container units.
The Triple E ships are 1,312 feet long and 194 feet wide.