Knock Nevis (Seawise Giant/Mont)

Knock Nevis was the largest ship ever built, an ultra-large crude carrier of 564,763 dwt and 458.45 meters length overall, more often remembered under her first name Seawise Giant. Sumitomo Heavy Industries built her at Oppama, Japan, completing in 1979; she was bombed and sunk in shallow water during the Iran-Iraq War, then salvaged and returned to service. Over her life she carried the names Seawise Giant, Happy Giant, Jahre Viking, Knock Nevis, and finally Mont, ending as a floating storage and offloading unit off Qatar before scrapping at Alang in 2010. Her draft of about 24.6 meters barred her from the Suez and Panama canals and the English Channel.