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JAHRE VIKING (KNOCK NEVIS)

Jahre Viking
 

Even in an age of superlatives, the Jahre Viking continued as the ultimate superlative. Jahre Viking was so huge that she would comfortably swallow up India's 25,000-tonne aircraft carrier INS Vikrant in her holds. At 485.46 meters long, she dwarfed the 424-metre Petronas twin tower of Malaysia. 

Built in 1979 for a Greek shipping magnate towards the end of the super tanker boom that followed the oil embargo of 1973, her original owner went bankrupt even before she put out to sea. Her builders, the Japanese conglomerate Sumitomo, then offered her to a Hong Kong owner Orient Overseas Container Line.

Before taking delivery, her new owner set an unusual condition. Already massive at 480,000 tones, he ordered that her length be increased several more meters to add another 87,000 tones to her load-carrying capacity to make her, at 564,763 tones, the largest ship to ever be built. After the refit, the ship had a length of 458.45 m (1,504.1 ft). She had 46 tanks, 31,541 square metres (339,500 sq ft) of deck space. She was now name Seawise Giant.

The Seawise Giant sat 24.6 meters in the water, a depth great enough to deny her entry to most of the world's major ports, including the Suez and Panama canals.  She drew too much water to pass through the 32-mile-wide English Channel. The ship's rudder weighed 230 tons, and the propeller 50 tons! 

Seawise Giant was damaged and sunk during the 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War by an Iraqi Air Force attack while anchored on 14 May 1988 and carrying Iranian crude oil. The ship was struck by parachute bombs. Fires ignited aboard the ship and blazed out of control, and she sank in the shallow waters off the coast of Larak Island, Iran.  She was declared a total loss and was laid up.

Seawise Giant model

Shortly after the Iran-Iraq war ended, Norman International--a Norwegian company-- bought the wreckage of the ship, raised her and towed her to  Singapore for repairs.  She entered service in October 1991 as Happy Giant.

Shortly after the tanker attracted the attention of Jørgen Jahre who bought her in 1991 for $39 million and renamed her Jahre Viking. 
 
In 2004, Jahre Viking was purchased by First Olsen Tankers Pte. Ltd., renamed Knock Nevis, and converted into a permanently moored storage tanker in the Qatar Al Shaheen oil field in the Persian Gulf. 

Knock Nevis was renamed Mont, and reflagged to Sierra Leone by the new owner Amber Development Corporation, for her final voyage to India in January 2010 where she was scrapped.  

To date, the Jahre Viking is still  the longest ship ever constructed.  She is also the largest by deadweight. Jahre Viking was featured on the BBC series Jeremy Clarkson's Extreme Machines.  She could reach up to 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h).  It took her 9 km (5 1⁄2 mi) to stop from that speed, and her turning circle was about 3 km (2 mi). 

Jahre Viking's 36-tonne anchor is permanently exhibited at Hong Kong Maritime Museum.

Jahre Viking model

We build this primarily wood Jahre Viking/Knock Nevis model in three sizes:

52" long x 10" tall x 8.5" wide $5,990  Shipping and insurance in the contiguous USA included. Other places: $600 flat rate. This model  in stock and can be shipped within 5 business days.   

36" long $4,150 Shipping and insurance in the contiguous USA included. Other places: $400 flat rate.

24" long $2,755 Shipping and insurance in the contiguous USA included. Other places: $300 flat rate.

A wooden base is included

36" and 24" models are built per commission only. We require only a small deposit (not full amount, not even half) to start the process $500  The remaining balance won't be due until the model is completed, in about 5 months.

Not all ship models are equal, and a lot of them are junk. For those who have seen some cheap Jahre Viking models out there and felt the urge to go cheap, be forewarned. Those models are wrong on many important features. Their hulls are so wrong that no words can ever describe. One even has wrong color on it (also on the deck). The railings on one model are very oversized and look like none ever existed on any real ships (in fact, those railings are cut from cockroach mess in tropical regions where cockroaches are huge.) The all-important funnel is erroneous on many counts. Any common laborers can assemble prefab parts and stick a name on the thing to label it Jahre Viking. It took us a mere couple of minutes to spot those errors on several different models that pop up everywhere on the Internet and we did not want to spend more time looking at the perhaps ugliest things ever seen. The handsome ship suddenly becomes displeasing in the hands of the me-too sweatshops.

 


 

 

 

Learn more about the Seawise Giant here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawise_Giant