
As T/T Seawise Giant after lengthened

As T/T Jahre Viking

As FSO Knock Nevis
Builder: Sumitomo H. I., Oppama Yard, Japan as B#1016
Launch date: 04.09.1975 - Date of completion: 03.1976
Main engine: Sumitomo Stal-Laval AP steam turbines, 50.000 hp by 85 rpm, service speed 16 knots
Length overall: 376.7 m, 418,610 tdw
1976 as T/T PORTHOS (laid down for Greek owners, who refused delivery, caused by
1976 as T/T OPPAMA (Sumitomo H.I., Oppama Yard, for own account)
Sold and commissioned 12/1979
1979 as T/T SEAWISE GIANT (Universal Petroleum Carriers Inc., Liberia)
1980 - Lengthened to 458.45 m, 564,739 tdw, carried out by Nippon Kokan, Tsu Shipyard, Japan
14/05/1988 bombed by Iraqi aircraft at Hormuz Terminal & declared CTL.
1989 as T/T HAPPY GIANT (Norman Intnl A/S, Norway)
1991 - rebuilt as a tanker in Keppel Shipyard, Singapore, 564,763 tdw after reconstructing
1991 as T/T JAHRE VIKING (K/S Jahre Viking, Norway)
Converted to a FSO at Dubai Drydocks
2004 as Floating Storage and Offloading unit (FSO) KNOCK NEVIS (First Olsen Tankers, Norway),
steamturbines vibrations, launched unnamed & laid up on completion)
operating at Al Shaheen-Oilfield in Qatar Waters
