Chapter 1927: Maritime giant

Which is the largest oil tanker in the world?
This can be used as a quiz question for a knowledge quiz. The answer to this question is also the simplest. The name of this oil tanker is called Sea Giant.
That's right, this is really a giant on the sea. It is the longest ship with a total length of 458 meters. Even a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is only more than 300 meters long. This giant ship can enter the world. Guinness has recorded the longest ship in the world and the longest artificially manufactured float on the water.
It is very large and has a huge belly. It can carry 560,000 tons of crude oil, which is the largest in the world. With its own weight of 260,000 tons, it has a full displacement of eight Nimitz.
However, as long as you do the calculations, you will know that the ship is not economical, its weight is too large, it is almost half of the carrying capacity, along the way, the useless work occupies one third.
However, most modern supertankers have a loading capacity of about 300 to 330,000 tons, and their own weight is only about 60,000 tons. This is the result of economic calculations. At this level, construction costs, fuel consumption, and various The cost can be minimized.
In fact, it weighs 260,000 tons. It is definitely not the use of 260,000 tons of steel during construction, but to make it stable during navigation, it needs to fill a huge amount between its two hulls. The seawater, which has a mass of hundreds of thousands of tons, is ballast seawater, otherwise, it will easily turn over.
At the same time, this was also the idea of ​​the ship kings at the time. They pursued big, biggest, and biggest! After it appeared, it immediately caused a shock in the entire ship world, and no one could surpass it anymore.
In the beginning, it was ordered by ship kings from other countries and built in an island country. Later, before the ship was built, the ship king went bankrupt. In 1979, the ship king of the Oriental Pearl Tower bought this ship and designed it at that time. The oil transport capacity is 440,000 tons. In order to realize the biggest idea, he transformed it and became a monster capable of holding 560,000 tons of crude oil.
In 1981, the ship completed its construction and began its transportation career, transporting oil from the busy world oil center to Han and other countries. At this time, it also discovered many of its own shortcomings.
When fully loaded, the ship has a draft of more than 24 meters. The world’s major waterways and various canals cannot pass through it. It can only be a detour. Therefore, in terms of economic benefits, it is not the best.
Of course, this will not change the pride of its biggest tanker, it has its own halo.
However, when it loaded crude oil in the Gulf and set sail, it was still a bit worried. After all, there is now a war here.
Or the most terrible battle to attack an oil tanker. Shouldn't their huge hull become the target of attacks?
They were very unlucky. When the ship attack began, they had just entered the bay. Anyway, they were beaten when they went back empty. Since they are here, they have to transport crude oil and seek danger from wealth. This is their destiny. They Going back empty, how furious the shipowners should be.
"Don't be afraid. The day before yesterday, an oil tanker of Han State set sail. It sailed in broad daylight and crossed the strait safely without any blow." The captain said to his crew.
People from other countries dare not come, but the oil tankers of the Han country continue to sail in a magnificent manner. Everyone gritted their teeth with envy.
The negotiations on the sovereignty of the Oriental Pearl Tower have ended and will eventually return to Han, but now they are still a colony under the jurisdiction of the governor of the cattle country.
It’s okay for the Han country. The problem is, the national flag of Han is hung on the mast!
"Or, let's fly the national flag of Han?" A crew member said cautiously. Everyone knows that in this war, Han sold arms to the two warring parties, and both sides got the benefits of Han. If they dare Going to bomb the oil tanker in Han, that is really annoying.
Han is safe and sound, so hang the flag of Han and pretend to be a tanker of Han?
"No, no. We don't fly any national flags." The captain rejected the proposal of his crew. Using the national flag of Han, he would not do that. It was too shameful.
But, he doesn’t fly other national flags. This is a trick. Their oil tanker is so famous. As long as you look at it from the sky, you will know that it is the world’s largest maritime giant and that it belongs to the Pearl of the Orient. It’s from Han, so you can avoid being hit.
He didn't know, his refusal made him regret it soon, because not all pilots knew it, and not all pilots had this patience.
The huge ship set sail.
Ordinary oil tankers mainly use low-speed marine diesel engines. However, the power of marine diesel engines is too small to drive the world's largest cargo ship. It uses Sumitomo Stal-LavalAP steam turbines with a total power of 50,000 horsepower.
Now, there was a puff of black smoke coming out of the steam boiler, and the oil tanker left the dock slowly and began this frightening voyage.
An ordinary oil tanker needs more than a dozen crew members, but this tanker is too big, and it carries nearly forty crew members.
Like other cargo ships, during this thrilling voyage, no crew is willing to stay in the cabin. Once an accident occurs, it is not easy to run.
Almost all of its crew are on deck.
Even if there were more than 30 people on the deck, they could not be seen because the deck was too huge.
If it is a container ship, the ship is full of containers, piled high, but now it is an oil tanker, the deck is flat, it shows that the deck is empty.
The width is 69 meters, which is as wide as a football field. As for the length, there are at least four football fields. If the crew is really bored, you can play football on the deck.
Now they certainly didn't have this idea. They were looking at the sky warily. Soon they saw a fighter plane flying in the sky. When it got closer, the wings suddenly turned forward and became flat. Straighten up.
MiG-23!
There are not many warplanes with variable swept wings. Among the equipment of the Date Palm and the Parthian nation, only the Date Palm has this type of fighter. With the entry of a large number of J-14 and Flying Leopards, this type of MiG The 23 fighter plane is quite backward in the equipment of the date palm country.
Hope it will not trouble itself!
The crew members were praying, but the plane clearly spotted them and came towards them.
"Hey, see clearly, we are from the Han country!" Someone had already yelled into the sky, but it was useless. They saw the plane dived towards them!