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At random: The USS NAUTILUS SSN 571 steamed 60,000 miles on a lump of Uranium the size of a golf ball. A diesel powered submarine would have required 3,000,000 gallons or 300 railway tank cars of oil.

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John396

Posted 2007-06-30 5:29 PM (#4929)

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Location: Sacramento/Twain Harte

Subject: What a ship! NSR

Matson Navigations largest is 860 FT. ---John396
Hope pics. come threw. ---John

World's Largest Cargo Ship
Get a load of this ship! 15.000 containers and a 207' beam! And look at the crew size (13) for a ship longer than US aircraft carriers, which have complements of 5,000 men and officers. Think it's big enough? Notice that 207' beam means it was NOT designed for the Panama or Suez Canal. It is strictly transpacific. Check out the "cruise speed". 31 mph means the goods arrive four days before the typical container ship traveling at 18 to 20 mph on a China-to-California run. So this behemoth is hugely competitive when carrying perishable goods.
This ship was built in three, perhaps as many as five sections. The sections floated together and then welded. Itis named Emma Maersk. The command bridge is higher than a ten story building and has eleven rigs that can operate simultaneously.

Additional info:
Country of origin - Denmark
Length - 1,302 ft
Width - 207 ft
Net cargo - 123,200 tons
Engine - 14 in-line cylinders diesel engine (110,000 BHP)
Cruise Speed - 31 mi/h
Cargo capacity - 15,000 TEU (1 TEU = 20 ft3 container)
Crew - 13 people
First Trip - Sept. 08, 2006
Construction cost - US $145,000,000+

The silicone paint applied to the ship's bottom reduces water resistance
and saves 317,000 gallons of diesel per year

Perry Holden
Electrical & Instrument Design Coordinator
URS Corporation
7389 Florida Boulevard, Suite 300
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70806
Phone: 225.922.5700
Direct: 225.922.5886
Fax: 225.922.5866
Perry_Holden@urscorp.com

Flapper

Posted 2007-06-30 7:10 PM (#4933 - in reply to #4929)

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Posts: 1107

Location: Tucson AZ

Subject: RE: What a ship! NSR

Here she is underway and loaded ...

And unloaded ...

I wonder what she draws fully loaded?

I'm thinking you wouldn't want to be submerged in her path at say 150' or maybe even 200' and have go rumbling over at 30 kts. You'd end up like that LA class in the Persian Gulf that got sucked up into a tanker's bottom.

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