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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sirajstc" data-source="post: 12663804" data-attributes="member: 91140">Seawise Giant, was the longest ship ever built. She possessed the  greatest deadweight tonnage ever recorded. Fully laden, her displacement  was 657,019 tonnes the heaviest ship of  any kind, she was incapable of navigating the English Channel, the Suez  Canal or the Panama Canal. Overall, she was generally considered the  largest ship ever built, as well as the largest self-propelled man made  object ever built. Seawise Giant was the longest ship ever  constructed, longer than the height of many of the world's tallest  buildings. She was larger than the Petronas Twin Towers at 452 m (1,483  ft). Seawise Giant was featured on the BBC series Jeremy  Clarkson's Extreme Machines. According to her captain, S. K. Mohan, she  could reach up to 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h) in good weather, it took 5.5  miles (8.9 km) to stop from that speed, and the turning circle in clear  weather was about 2 mi (3.2 km). her final voyage to India in  January 2010 where she was scrapped. Her 36 tonne anchor was saved and  sent to the Hong Kong Maritime Museum for exhibition. <img src="http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/529720_344473528953563_223193681081549_927422_329009675_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </blockquote>

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