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Sea Going Ship Sizes

The Tiny Titanic

We have often heard that the Titanic was the largest sea going ship. That was definitely true - in 1912.  However, since that time other ships have been built that are larger and even dwarf the Titanic.   The Queen Mary 1, for example, was about 136 feet longer and weighed almost twice as much.  Modern US aircraft carriers also weigh about twice as much as the Titanic did.  The Queen Mary 2 and several cruise ships weigh even more, and are more than three times the weight of the Titanic.

Large tanker ships of today are even bigger.  The largest ship afloat today is a tanker, and it is called the "Jahre Viking".  It is almost twice as long as the Titanic was and would probably weigh more than 12 times the Titanic when both were filled.  A still larger vessel, called "Freedom" is being planned.  This vessel would make all of the other ships, including the Jahre Viking, look tiny by comparison.

Some specifications below - from an amount of web research on ship sizes:

(please note that all specifications here should be considered approximate - and were taken simply from the best data I could find on each subject)

Passenger and Military Type Ships

Tanker Ship Classifications

Specific Tanker plus Very Large Ships

* The Jahre Viking was originally called the "Seawise Giant" as it left Japan shipyards.  It is currently the world's largest ship

Note:  the proposed "Freedom" ship is not a tanker, but is more of a floating city.

Some Large Ship Facts: (some of this information from below cited web references)

* Crews on large tankers use bicycles to move about on the ship

* The holds of the Jahre Viking could swallow St. Paul's Cathedral four times over

* Some Large tankers are so long, they need to take the earth's coriolis force into account for navigation

* Some large tankers weigh so much that they cannot go through the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal and cannot even dock in many of the world sea ports

* If the Empire State building were to be placed on its side, the Jahre Viking would be longer by 253 feet

* If the Eiffel Tower were to be placed on its side, it would fit inside the Jahre Viking

* The Jahre Viking cannot travel through the English Channel since its turning capability is not good enough for the narrow channel

* the Jahre Viking, when called the Seawise Giant, was sunk by Iraqi Jets using exocet missiles in 1986, but has since been restored

* The Titanic, the Queen Mary, The USS Nimitz and the Jahre Viking could fit inside the proposed ship "Freedom"

Some References for some of the above data:

Royal Caribbean Ultra Voyager, Planned for 2006
http://cruises.about.com/cs/cruisenews/a/rci_ultravoyage.htm

Queen Mary 2, New in 2004
http://www.cruiseweb.com/CUNARD-QUEEN-MARY-2.HTM

Supertankers and Coriolis Force:
http://www.wcsscience.com/supertanker/page.html

Tanker look up directory:
http://www.tankerworld.com/vessels/

New Proposed Huge Freedom Ship:
http://www.popular-science.net/technology/freedomship.html

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