Pierre Guillaumat a Supertanker Ever Built

Pierre Guillaumat was a supertanker, in-built 1977 by Chantiers de l'Atlantique at Saint-Nazaire for Compagnie Nationale de Navigation. Pierre Guillaumat, which was the third vessel of Batillus class supertankers (the other three, slightly smaller, were Batillus, Bellamya and Prairial), is distinguished as the biggest ship ever constructed, surpassed in measurement solely by Seawise Big[5][6] (later Jahre Viking, Completely satisfied Large and Knock Nevis) in-built 1976, and solely subsequently lengthened, though the four ships of the Batillus class had a larger gross tonnage.

Named after the French politician and founding father of Elf Aquitaine oil industry, Pierre Guillaumat, the vessel was accomplished and put in service in 1977. As a consequence of unprofitability, accentuated by large dimensions of the ship, which placed restrictions on the place she could possibly be employed, the Pierre Guillaumat was placed on hold at Fujairah anchorage since February 2, 1983,[2] and later that 12 months, bought by the Hyundai Company, and renamed Ulsan Grasp, she arrived at Ulsan, South Korea for demolition on October 19, 1983.

Due to her gigantic proportions the usability of the Pierre Guillaumat was very limited. She couldn't move by means of both the Panama or Suez canals. Due to her draft, she may enter a minimal number of ports on the earth, and was therefore moored on offshore rigs, and oil terminals like Antifer and after off-loading to reduce her draft, at Europoort.

Pierre Guillaumat  Technical data

Length total was 414.23 m, beam 63.05 m, draft 28.603 m, deadweight tonnage 555,051, and gross tonnage 274,838. Propulsion was offered by two propellers each driven by two Stal-Laval steam generators developing a complete power of sixty five,000 Hp. The service pace was 16.7 knots, with gasoline consumption of about 330 tonnes of heavy oil per day and gasoline sufficient for 42 days.

The cargo was carried in forty tanks with a total quantity of 677,300 m3. They have been divided into central and lateral tanks, whose dimensions was designed to scale back significantly the risk of air pollution brought on by collision or grounding. Ahead of the international requirements of the time, the wing tanks had a most unit volume not exceeding 17,000 m3, which was reduced to 9,000 m3 in the most vulnerable parts of ship.