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Seawise Giant

scrapped ULCC supertanker
Vehicle oil_tanker Q2554
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Summary

Seawise Giant is an oil tanker[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of oil tanker entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (18,819 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: tanker[3]
  • Manufacturer: Sumitomo Heavy Industries[4]
  • Made from material: steel[5]
  • Commons category: IMO 7381154[6]
  • Service entry: 1979[7]
  • Significant event: jumboisation[8], ship breaking[9], shipwrecking[10]
  • Location of creation: Yokosuka[11]
  • Gross tonnage: 260,941[12]
  • Shape: single hull[13]
  • Length: 458.45 m[14]
  • Width: 68.8 m[15]
  • Speed: 15.8 knot[16]
  • Beam: 68.8 m[17]
  • Draft: 24.611 m[18]
  • Payload mass: 564,763 tonne[19]
  • Category for ship name: Category:Jahre Viking (ship, 1979)[20], Category:Knock Nevis (ship, 1979)[21]

Why It Matters

Seawise Giant has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Guinness World Records 2019. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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