„Jahre Viking“ – the Norvegian supertanker

The ship, which over time was to become the largest representative of this class, was ordered in 1972 by the company "Atlantic Shipping", which belongs to the Greek carrier M.P. Nomikos. The name “Porthos” was intended for the ship and its cargo capacity was to reach 400,000 tons. The tanker was built by the Japanese firm "Oppama" shipyard in the Yokosuka and launched on September 4, 1975, but still without a name. The construction was completed in March 1976, but the owner did not claim the tanker. The official cause was declared to be due to excessive vibrations, caused by the propulsion system. But the real reason, is believed, to be the reopening of the Suez Canal, following the end of the wars in the Middle East, which has reduced profits from transporting oil around Africa by large tankers. The ship, named "Oppama" at the shipyard's initiative, was sold in December 1979 to Chinese shipping tycoon C. Y. Tung's “Universal Petroleum Company”. The tanker is named "Seawise Giant" and flies the flag of Liberia. After the first voyage from Japan to the Persian Gulf, Tung ordered an increase in the length of the ship to 81 meters. This was carried out at the “Nippon Kokan” shipyard in Tsu and the ship returned to service in December 1980. It was supposed to carry oil from the Middle East to the Gulf of Mexico, but after two voyages with an incomplete load, it was abandoned off the coast of Aruba and used as a floating warehouse. Towed off the coast of Mexico in 1983 and continued to be used as a warehouse, she was leased by the Iraqi government in 1986 and used as a transshipment terminal in the Persian Gulf, then engulfed in the flames of the Iran-Iraq war. Twice - in October and December 1987 - lightly damaged during Iraqi air raids. On May 14, 1988 before afternoon, the Strait of Hormuz in the Larak region was attacked by Iraqi “Mirage” F1 fighters. Their targets were two huge floating oil storage tanks with smaller tankers, moored to them, into which the cargo was pumped. The group of ships, moored at the “Seawise Giant” suffered the most. The Spanish tanker "Barcelona" (235,000 DWT) was moored on the starboard side of the giant, and the Cypriot tanker "Argosy" (152,004 DWT) on the port side. One of the Iraqi missiles hit the “Argosy”, which caught fire, killing 3 crew and injuring 13. The other two missiles hit the “Seawise Giant”, which caused a fire in the main superstructure, the second hit the nearly full oil hull, but did not explode. Both damaged ships were sunk in the shallows as beyond repair, a little later the same thing happened to the burning "Barcelona", in which 4 people died. Three days later, while trying to tow the Spanish ship off the ground, it exploded, splitting the ship in half and spilling 140,000 tons of oil into the sea. The explosion also destroyed the tug “Scan Partner”, which was killed with its entire crew of 10, and three other tugs, the “Beaufort”, the “Ferdinand Verbiest” (with the loss of 2 sailors) and the “Safir” got a light damages. The British tanker "Burmah Endeavor" (457,841 DWT) and the Iraqi "Khark" (231,712 DWT) were also damaged during the raid, but the damage was minor. After the war, “Seawise Giant's” hull was towed off the coast of Brunei, where she was bought by Norwegian shipowner “Norman International A-S” and refitted under the name “Happy Giant” in September 1990 at “Keppel Shipyard” in Singapore. During the repair, this company was bought by Norwegian Jorgen Jahre, the ship's name was changed to "Jahre Viking". In October 1991 the tanker resumed service under the “Loki Steam AS” company and sailed under the Norwegian flag. It transported oil from the Persian Gulf to US Gulf of Mexico ports. He also visited the French deep-sea oil terminal Antifer near the Havre port several times. In 2004 the ship was sold to “First Olsen Tankers Pte. Ltd”, renamed “Knock Nevis” and after conversion work carried out in Dubai, in August 2004 she was moored at the oil company Al Shaheen as an oil storage and transshipment terminal. At the beginning of 2009 the owners returned the vessel to the list of floating oil tankers, but in December 2009 it was sold to “Amber Development Corporation”. Named "Mont", she embarked on her final voyage under the flag of Sierra Leone. It sailed to the Indian port of Alang, where it was cut up at the yard of “Prya Blue Industries”.

A highly complex, well-designed and highly detailed 1:400 publishing house “JSC” largest ship model of the world's largest ship, designed for intermediate to advanced modellers. The model recreates the appearance of the tanker in 1991, when the vessel sailed under the Norwegian flag name "Jahre Viking".