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Topic: GLORY and MONT at Alang

Midshipcentury
First Class Passenger
Member # 12190

posted 01-04-2010 04:19 AM

Just added an image of the GLORY (ex SALAMIS GLORY, etc.) at Alang taken on Saturday morning. She beached on Friday night. Also at Alang and in the hands of Sanjay Mehta of Priya Blue (BLUE LADY, RITA, NEW ORLEANS, MAXIM M) is MONT, the longest ship ever built and fifth largest ship in the world.

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Peter

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PamM
First Class Passenger
Member # 2127

posted 01-04-2010 08:34 AM

Thanks for those, it is sad to see Seawise Giant on the beach, but just how many other tankers have ever lasted as long? She has had a checkered life and not actually sailed for some of it, but hey she is still the largest in my book!! Forget GT, she's a tanker, dwt is the concern here

Largest at birth and still largest at death; any other ship of any sort managed that?

Pam
[I am not going to argue over anyone elses definition of largest here ]

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DAMBROSI
First Class Passenger
Member # 100

posted 01-04-2010 09:05 AM

Isn't it interesting that both SALMIS GLORY and REGAL EMPRESS had the same smoke areas not far from the engine rooms?

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Lubber
First Class Passenger
Member # 13710

posted 01-04-2010 11:18 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Midshipcentury:
Also at Alang and in the hands of Sanjay Mehta of Priya Blue (BLUE LADY, RITA, NEW ORLEANS, MAXIM M) is MONT, the longest ship ever built and fifth largest ship in the world.

WOW... beaching the ex-Knock Nevis must have been a real feat. Her draft was too deep for the English Channel-- I always thought she was unbeachable!

Since Sanjay Mehta can get that on his résumé, I'm sure the shipbreaking world is his oyster.

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Magic Pipe
First Class Passenger
Member # 6994

posted 01-04-2010 07:02 PM

quote:
Originally posted by PamM:
Largest at birth and still largest at death; any other ship of any sort managed that?
Pam
[I am not going to argue over anyone elses definition of largest here ]

The last one that I can think of was the Great Eastern!

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Indarra
First Class Passenger
Member # 6005

posted 01-04-2010 08:16 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Magic Pipe:
The last one that I can think of was the Great Eastern!

Also worth mentioning that Normandie came close. And in fact Seawise Giant was not the largest at birth. Originally built for Nomikos, bought by C.Y.Tung and lengthened by Nippon Kokan, Tsu to become the largest.

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Cunard Fan
First Class Passenger
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posted 01-05-2010 01:08 AM

It kind of makes me sad to see Seawise Giant on the beach.

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PamM
First Class Passenger
Member # 2127

posted 01-05-2010 03:58 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Indarra:
And in fact Seawise Giant was not the largest at birth. Originally built for Nomikos, bought by C.Y.Tung and lengthened by Nippon Kokan, Tsu to become the largest.

She was never delivered to Nomikos though & I don't believe anywhere near completed before the hull was purchased by Tung and lengthened to become the largest. She never went to sea before the lengthening.

I suppose there is always Titanic as well.

Pam

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Lubber
First Class Passenger
Member # 13710

posted 01-05-2010 11:05 AM

Seawise Giant/Knock Nevis was outsized in gross tonnage by a group of four Batillus-class tankers built at Chantiers de l'Atlantique in the '70s, all of which have been scrapped. Taken as a group, these would have been the largest in birth and in death.

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PamM
First Class Passenger
Member # 2127

posted 01-05-2010 04:50 PM

Which is why I said DWT and to forget gross tonnage, which is not a useful measurement for an oil tanker, being more concerned with how much she can carry v space available. MONT is both longer and has [had] a higher DWT than the Batillus quads.

Pam

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LenKinap
First Class Passenger
Member # 23718

posted 01-05-2010 06:12 PM

Hello,

Thanks Peter for the information. Mine were accurate, it was a problem of beaching at the best condition.

Another one has now 80-90% of "chances" to finish at Alang, it's the Saga Rose because no one is interested by the vessel and - if I'm well informed - scrapping is now seriously envisaged. Very seriously ... It's only a question of time and of money (the owner has a gigantic appetite for a such old ship, not in so good mechanical shape)

The Doulos is another case, but I am doubtful... Alang should be now plain like an egg.

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Waynaro
First Class Passenger
Member # 3484

posted 01-06-2010 12:49 AM

Thanks for the pictures, Peter. Good to see REGAL EMPRESS' funnel is still standing.

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rd77
First Class Passenger
Member # 2117

posted 01-06-2010 04:15 AM

The beaching of the ex-SEAWISE GIANT really means the end (of sorts) for the era of the 70s mammoth tankers or ULCC's (tankers of over 320,000 DWT). There are one or two other old ULCC's engaged as storage vessels, a couple have become FPSO's and the rest has been scrapped.

Overall, the ULCC's days are numbered. Only 4 ULCC's were built in recent years. Hellespont of Greece had them built at Daewoo around 2003. Hellespont sold them with a profit(!) to Euronav of Belgium and OSG of the US. Unfortunately, two of these vessels have already become storage vessels

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