Biggest ship - NO ACCIDENT

[denjam]

La musique de cette vidéo a changé. La musique d'avant était envoûtante à souhait, c'est dommage.

[nikovolta]

made in France,Chantiers de l'Atlantique Saint-Nazaire.

[xenonsn]

Why you change the music?



[zahujk]

that ship can have a bigger fan..... why its so small... not cool...

[gemlikli161]

knock venıs vs Batillus class

[McLarenMercedes]

Biggest ship if gross tonnage is counted.

However the size of ships usually is used the Deadweight Tonnage measure, and there the Knock Nevis (ex Jahre Viking, ex Seawise Giant) still was the heaviest ever (and the longest ever too).

[denjam]

@McLarenMercedes In fact the Batillus-class supertanker "Pierre Guillaumat" is still the longuest shi ever built. The seawise Giant was smaller when built but was extended by 81 metres to increase its profitability.

[360thebigboss]

i am born in penhoet ... next to the ship yard....

[zeldaisbest]

Song name?

[denjam]

Cette vidéo a quelque chose qui prend aux tripes. Superbe pièce d'ingénierie.

[thedoeguy]

WoW! Is that ugly.

[SuperOlds88]

wouldn't it be simpler to run it with a couple of big outboard motors?

[stinkybeans75]

so dis isnt the jahre viking?

[Blizzard020]

calvert...

[ColumbiaAndHoodRiver]

whats the song?

[GEREEF]

I never liked the U.L.C.C.'S

[Nilogaga]

Is this the song from the beginning of the movie " bicentennial Man"?

[lukebccb]

So if the somali pirates were able to hijack this ship they basically hold it ransom for like a gazillion dollars?

[raduteo]

Hello, do you have extra photos of Batillus or her sister ships? I already gathered every image that's available on the net but I need more reference pictures as I intend to model it.

Thanks!

[knollik]

music?



[mrdrachenfeuer1]

batillus my favorite ship

[contemporarymonk]

Grat vessel, but uselses in its size. Should have just been floating storage!

[saveadreamforme]

se va patéticamente a la bosta

[mrdrachenfeuer1]

die pirre guillamt ist zurzeit das größte schiff der welt!!!

[pROTPANDA]

This is nothing, Chuck Norris use these kind of ships as fishingboats.

[teletubbykiller23]

@pROTPANDA NO these and the late jhare viking are chuck norris's bath toys!

[teletubbykiller23]

such beautiful machines they werent the best looking or best handiling but without these monstrositys we wouldent have oil

[Linnets]

boar orange or rusty?

[jlb2]

@Linnets Thanks!

[agt155]

I'm guessing that's a two stage steam turbine engine? Look at the size of the gears. Some serious engineering there.

[mikey380sx]

Best video on youtube. End of story!

[mario102395]

@moelicious thats not what she told me.

[SKARKIBANEZ]

How many LITRES are they taking for a......trip.....?

[mickrussom]

Batillus class ships, all useless in modern shipping. All scrapped.

[5partan110]

wich song ?

[Johannes1955]

Very heavy!

[Kurwaan]

omg, my sailing boat is bigger, ahah :D

[1THQM]

сколькоже труда вложено людьми в создание таких огромных кораблей )))

[Danie9989]

does anyone know the song

thank you

[yopla250]

@Danie9989

A Beautiful Mind - A Kaleidoscope of Mathematics

[Danie9989]

@yopla250 thank you

[fsoorkid73]

Bigger ship i havent see before...

[1k9e8n1]

this thing was in service for only 9 years?!

[tupsumato]

@1k9e8n1, why not? It had already paid itself back and the owner could get more money out of it if he sold it for scrap instead of keeping it running.

[1k9e8n1]

@tupsumato why not?! it probably took a year to build the thing. to build a ship so large and scrape it after just 9 years is crazy. the Knock Nevis sailed 25 years before being turned into a storage tanker.

[tupsumato]

@1k9e8n1, the oil market changed in the late 70s and early 80s and operating ships like the Batillus class just wasn't profitable anymore. Therefore it was better to sell the ships to the highest bidder (that being the scrap merchant) instead of keeping them and losing money.

The last of the four Batillus class ships, Prairial, was scrapped in 2003. She was the only one that was sold for further service as all four had been laid up for some time in the early 80s.

[1k9e8n1]

@tupsumato oh now I see.

[tupsumato]

@1k9e8n1, I was surprised about the short lifespan of these ships as well. Usually oil tankers have a service life of 25 years or so. However, these ships were built just before the market changed rapidly. I'm quite sure there are many other, less notable ships that suffered the same fate.

[1k9e8n1]

It reminds me of the Big Boy locomotives, which were operated from 1941 to 1959. They're the largest locomotives ever built but they had such a short life.

[jlb2]

Are there chambers connecting the storage tanks below that a person could walk or crawl through?

[bickin]

i dont think so

[rainpanos]

@jlb2 of course there are chambers...they are used for cleaning the storage tanks

[jlb2]

@rainpanos Thanks!

[jlb2]

@rainpanos cool, thanks!

[rainpanos]

@jlb2 of course there are because the tanks need cleaning repairing and painting.. :-)

[videohost199]

@jlb2 IS IT BIGGER THEN TITANIK?????????????

WOW/ I THINK THAT SHIPS LIKE THIS EMPTY IN CENETER!!!!!! BUT THIS IS NOT!!!! WOW. HE HAS STRONG STRUCTURE

[NikosSTD]

Wtf? That rev reducer was for a steam turbine? Does anyone knows the size of her boilers?

[numptybaws3]

Thats pretty damn big. Too bad these beasts arent still sailing

[glenn3rd2004]

It's big but in the next few years even bigger ships displacing more than 1,000,000 deadweight tons (DWT) and reaching over 2000 feet in length may be steaming to a seaport near you. Those bigger ships will be built in shipyards in Asia and use steel-carbonfiber alloys that are much stronger than the steels used in ships built in the past. They will be built to withstand rogue waves as high as 40 meters (130 feet).

[kataklysm696]

Very nice. So this ship is one of the biggest on earth ever build right. And it`s such a giant...i can`t believe. Also Jahre Viking - The Koenigsegg CCR-X with a TopSpeed over 400kph is also pretty damn fast but in 1 10 100 or 1000years there is something so much faster. Typical Youtube comment

[gor319582006]

@glenn3rd2004 Sir, you're obviously living in a fantasy world! You posted over 100 comments on YouTube, Flickr, and other sites about ships, mining/farm/construction equipment, pipe organs, tuba players, Serena Williams, and angry cats and I found all your comments pointless, baseless, and utterly stupid. Buddy, please don't you ever post any more comments on any website without proper research of the topic(s) you're commenting about and providing proper evidence and proof.

[moelicious1]

My wife says it's not the size that matters, but the motion of the ocean...lol

[tupsumato]

I reckon you have a waterbed in the bedroom... ;)

[bickin]

ships are said to be females, i guess you are right! :) and so your wife..

[Etimos]

@moelicious1 That may be, but it takes a long time to cross the atlantic in a row boat.

[mamatalu]

@moelicious1 Your wife seems to have a lot of experience with different sizes. I wonder...

[glassbowls]

@moelicious1 your wife is lying.

[moelicious1]

@glassbowls :( I knew it! lol

[Gemusician]

@moelicious1 your wife said that the size doesnt matter (...) lol

[MrLuvlyJubly]

@moelicious1 But if the motion gets too rough you night get a nasty squirt of sticky liquid!

[ty3165]

@moelicious1 your wife sounds a right dirty bitch

[TheHashBot]

@moelicious1 Maybe so, but it takes a long time to get to london in a row boat...

[s13hgp]

@moelicious1 ; Yes she told my football team the same! :)

[simos2010]

service boat maria

[GotTheAnswers]

I'm almost speechless. What a magnificent piece of engineering. Shame it no longer rules the seas. These beasts are said to have paid themselves off in only a few voyages. Pierre Guillaumat (built for Elf Aquitaine of France) is the largest out of the four sister ships - 555,051 DWT. Great audio btw.

[sabre000001]

@GotTheAnswers

YEAH. Im proud to be french [=

[mytg8]

Actually, the volume of the Batillus and Bellamya is the biggest in history. The other two sister ships were slightly smaller, mainly because of their deck house. The Knock Nevis is smaller than all four of the class.

[619cactusjack]

the batillus class all ships weigh mora than knock nevis but knock nevis is the largest ever built

[glenn3rd2004]

Impressive. However, in the near future, even larger ships of up to 1,000,000+ DWT and 2000+ feet long may be built that make this 'giant' ship look 'average'.

[goodluckpeace44]

I am making ships in google sketchup way bigger than these

[trahcceb]

Im drawing a picture of you on mars with micheal jackson giving each other 69 whilst elton john spanks you with george clooneys wifes dildo.....on google sketchup.

[goodluckpeace44]

are you drawing your picture in mars? or are you drawing a picture of me in mars with micheal jackson giving each other 69 whilst elton john spanks you with george clooneys wifes dildo?

[trahcceb]

we need to decide if this is in or on mars. initially I thought you, but then considered myself also in this, but I do decline. This is entirely of yourself, micheal, and elton. Please enjoy xD

[goodluckpeace44]

I dont like to do anything with those people

[trahcceb]

i will draw it so you look asleep.

[vito1860]

Yowza! That must be one of the biggest vehicles ever built by mankind. Check out 0:58. Look at the tiny men at the bottom relative to those massive rudders and propellers!

[CrazyCars552]

Why was she scrapped after just 9 years?

[Joshmcfee]

The cost of running her(i.e. the cost of heavy oil)outweighed the cost of keeping her//shamereally;I've run two tankers up the beach at Alang,India;perfectly good hulls,nice accomodation,just a shame that they were steamships(300 metric tonnes of heavy oil a day)//

[MoxieChan]

whew i bet they are happy that all the icebergs are melting

[rodrigoslira]

Wonderful!

Do you know how many cost, nowadays, to build a giant like this?

[menneskeheten]

Is this one of the five biggest mass produced ULCC in the world?

[bickin]

Are you asking for the TI sisters? (a.k.a. Hellespont tankers)

[YOHANN31]

Yes

[lukeclews]

A fine piece of human engineering.

[HansNien]

Nice. Thanks for let us take a look inside.

But at the bow I see no bulb. Strange. Even in 1976 they knew that a bulbous bow couse a decreas in water resistance.

However, very interesting to se thousands of tons of steel welded together to form such a enormous ship.

[Twistlock19]

Bulbous bows only reduce resistance when they are near the surface- any tanker will, by nature of its trade, spend half its life empty i.e. in ballast condition. You need a bow that has the same shape through all drafts. A detail you´ll find on most, if not all bulk and oil carriers!

[woznix]

in which shipyard did thay build it ?

[YOHANN31]

Saint-Nazaire, France

[tsuchiya86]

St nazaire In France

[magnetworks]

I don't understand the comment of a steam turbine engine room being quiet. I worked in several of them as an engineer and ear mufflers were a must. I visited Batillus (1977) on Curacao after lightering one tanker out of her. It's impossible to describe her size if you've never seen her. It took us 11 hours with 11,000 4-tug hp to get her on the jetty. The same power to hold her to the jetty when empty, still w/o ballast. After all mooring cables were on board we were blown 5 miles off the coast.

[philthemadcocker]

WHAT IS THIS MUSIC

[Joshmcfee]

Theme from 'A beautiful mind' by James Horner

[bjokko95]

its !BIG!

[mattsonh]

Yes its nice, but can I ski behind it and how many beers fit in the captains fridge?

[BONY71]

lets chat

comment me back ZY

[levantoitalia]

Hi there, my father was commander of Nai Genova, that was little than this , but he had to leave it before to start first travel cause my mother had problem givin me the birth...

[SteffanLlwyd]

Good to see the turbines? Are there any big steamers left now?

[Joshmcfee]

No.Steamships of this size would be uneconomical,burning upwards of 300 metric tonnes of heavy oil per day.Modern day Diesel engines,which could no doubt move the 'Batillus'(should she still be in service)are available and you'd probably find she'd burn about(at a guess)160 metric tonnes a day.Turbines were quiet and you could hear each other talk in the engine room plus they took up less space.Still,technology moves forward does it not?

[SteffanLlwyd]

Know what you mean about turbines being quiet. I took a trip on 'Manxman' (turbine powered)... beautifully smooth and quiet. A diesel ferry of the same size knocks a lot in shallow water, because the engine shock waves reflect off the seabed and hit the hull 'on the re-bound'. Deck rails flex violently as a result. Could marine boilers be fuelled by 'fluidised' oal? Why are land-based power stations mostly coal fired steam turbines?

The vacuum that 'sucks' turbines at the LP end is cool.

[Joshmcfee]

Land based turbines are steam because it is a lot easier to control the frequency(50 Hz).Diesel engines of similar magnitude suffer from 'lag' which means they don't respond easily.Governors on steam ships & diesel ships control the amout of fuel delivered;the steam turbine governor is more 'twitchy' and the turbines speed can be adjusted in the blink of an eye.

[SteffanLlwyd]

Thanks for your reply ;)

I rather like the turbine concept, especially the big contribution to efficiency which condensing can make. Do you know about 'quasiturbines'? They are a neat halfway house between a Wankle Rotary and a Turbine. Well, not quite 'half-way' but still interesting. In the QT the central rotor is an articulating parallellogram. I'd love to have been an engineer but my mathematics was not good enough!

[Joshmcfee]

No,sadly all gone

[Shipskeel]

This was meant to be the third tower in the World Trade Center complex, but the Port Authority of NY and NJ were not able to condemn property south of Liberty street, so they turned it on its side, put a few propellers underneath and decided to trade by way of the ocean instead of another office building.

Ok.. jokes aside, this IS the same size as one of the WTC towers, only lying flat.

[sral1987]

^^

yes it is the same size if not bigger!

greetz

sral

[Shipskeel]

The ship is a few feet shorter than either of the towers of the former WTC, but they are about the same diameter at 207 tp 208 feet. So, the WTC comes out on top by a nose.

[SteffanLlwyd]

Staggering. Thanks for giving us something to scale the ship against.

[Andewsfarm]

what song was that

[Joshmcfee]

Theme from 'A beautiful mind' by James Horner

[sral1987]

truly a giant!!

[leonleonceur]

At 1:21 is that her next to the knock nevis!?

[Rakim8]

No it's not, this ship is only heavier in Dead weight tonnage than Knock Nevis but the Knock Nevis is a bigger ship overall, dimensions wise.

[phil3587]

search for "Pierre Guillaumat" on wikipedia and stop this video at 1:18. you`ll see...

[streetstream]

Look in the description. It states that her sister ships are: Pierre Guillaumat, Ballamya and Prairial.

[blackie3636]

Fantastic music!

[PKRlegend]

Knock Nevis???? this is the Battilus, and it is not anymore the biggest ship because it is cut in pieces because it was to big and expensive , so now the knock nevis: its no ship anymore but a floating storrage for fuel , so then we come to the biggest ship at the moment the BERGE STADT thats the biggest ship an the TI-EUROPE is the biggest Tanker ,

EMMA MEARSK the biggest Containership.

[48921995]

A small step for man, is a giant leap for mankind. lol

[GeorgeT50]

Look at the dam picture this huge F boat and the bridge haha oil tanker. Like big as that bridge =)

[fatherPAZUZU]

Yes whats the name of the music ?

[Joshmcfee]

Theme from 'A Beautiful Mind' by James Horner

[mickeymoose76]

its amazing that men with their bare hands have made this! we are miniscule compared to these vessels!

[fatherPAZUZU]

rightfully said... I liked the song

[livelessone]

hello... can you pls tell me name of the music? i like it very much...

[arthckr]

its the theme song from the movie A Beautiful Mind, cant remember the name exactly, but look up the soundtrack

[abtob1982]

There were 4 of these ships built, Batillus and Bellamya for shell and Prairial and Pierre Guillaumat for another company i sailed on the Prairial in 2000 renamed Sea giant, it was the last of these ships to be scrapped in 2003, a fantastic experience!! the Pierre Guillaumat was the largest by a few thousand tonnes so takes the title of the largest ship ever constructed. The next ship to be built bigger will be the pieter schelte for Allseas marine, a decommissioning vessel for offshore.

[raduteo]

@abtob1982

Hello, do you have extra photos of Batillus or her sister ships?( Since you mentioned you worked on Sea Giant) I already gathered every image that's available on the net but I need more reference pictures as I intend to model it.

Thanks!

[KATaLiZTiK099]

You are a encyclopedi of ships! Wow

[KATaLiZTiK099]

But this ship is in use today dude?

[Joshmcfee]

No,she was scrapped in the early eighties.This was due to her running costs(the prime mover,or engine,in this vessel was a steam turbine,which consumed over 300 metric tonnes of heavy oil per day).

Basically the cost of running her outweighed the cost of carrying cargo.Thats when you scrap a ship.

Pity really,she was glorious........

[bickin]

What about navigating on economic speed? Most of large crude carriers do that unless a high oil demand is due. Or the company tries to agree on any other appropriate c/p. Was that so difficult in those times?

[Joshmcfee]

If you reduce the speed of the vessel it's going to take longer to arrive at it's destination(obviously).The thing is that once the ship has loaded her crude, say ,in the Persian Gulf,it's sold immediately.Therefore instead of a six week steam to the States it'll take (for arguments sake)seven and a half weeks.The person who purchased the oil wants it asap.

Todays modern ULCC's/VLCC's are diesel(no steamships left).They can do 16 knots on 80 metric tonnes of heavy oil per day.

[KATaLiZTiK099]

The Knock Nevis is Bigger than this xD

[Joshmcfee]

The ship featured here is the 'Batillus',a Shell ULCC.She is the largest ship ever built.The Knock Nevis was increased in length after she was towed to Singapore for repair after being destroyed in the Persian Gulf,thus she was'nt actually the largest built ship 'as left the yard' if you get my meaning.

[ingareinar007]

Even two monoblocks with five blades! That is the maximum of blades and to still be efficient. Six blades goes more silent, but less pressure.. (like submarines)

[jpbalkenende]

Is it true that this thing is too big to navigate the english channel fully loaded?

[johnama9]

Damn sure though, the owners of this mammoth machine put the highly experience crew to navigate and safe deliver her cargo!

[jpbalkenende]

So what's going to be the vehicle that breaks mammoth tanker records? My money is on Cruise ships. I know cargo ships are still bigger but if you look at what kind of cruise ships they are building and how quick they are growing I think they'll beat the record first.

[bickin]

if jahre viking did, why not her? only have to care about squat calculations thats all!!

[Ginandor]

You're correct. Even smaller ships such as Shell's 'L' class on which I sailed (e.g Lepeta & Lanistes) which weighed in about 300000 tonnes, had to be partially offloaded by smaller tankers. This was often done in Lyme Bay off the south coast of England. Lightening ships such as the Darina, Donovania, and others, would draw up alongside, and seperated by huge Yokohama fenders, take oil from the larger ship. Only then could they sail to Rotterdam via the channel.

[Joshmcfee]

I did 'Litiopa' in 1981,lightering in the caribbean.She was a monster alright.Did'nt half burn some heavy oil!

[bshitter]

i like the musci .

[elricardoo77]

grandisimooooooooooooooooooooo

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[BennyChz]

you never realise just how bigh ULCC's and VLCC's are until your are right beside one. damn

[murk135]

What music is this? From a movie?

[daverol]

"beautiful mind" i guess

[ironman88988]

OMG, i cant concentrate on the video and audio :D

[WR250HUSKY]

Anyone know of any DVD's available on the worlds largest ships , in Aus ?

[Tampa0123456789]

Yes just go to the sicence channel(discovery channel)They have lots of good videos of things like this.

[fsfer]

damn

[PanDiMia]

wow what a tanker

[ghett0fabu1as]

oh my god!