The Batillus at the end of her construction in Saint-Nazaire.
History
Name
Batillus
Owner
Societe Maritime Shell, France
Port of registry
Fos-sur-Mer
Builder
Chantiers de l'Atlantique,
Saint-Nazaire, France
Yard number
V 25[2]
Laid down
May 18, 1975
Launched
June 25, 1976
Completed
1976
Maiden voyage
1976
In service
1976
Out of service
1983
Identification
Call sign FNWJ[1]
IMO number: 7360095[1]
Fate
Scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 1985.
General characteristics
Class and type
Batillus, ULCC
Tonnage
553,662 DWT[5]
275,268 GT ITC[6]
225,473 NET
Displacement
630,962 t[3]
Length
414.22 m (1,359 ft 0 in)[1]
Beam
63.01 m (206 ft 9 in)
Draft
28.50 m (93 ft 6 in)
Installed power
64,800 Hp[9]
Propulsion
4 × Stal-Laval[4] single reduced steam turbine engines
2 × propellers
Speed
16 knots (30 km/h)
Notes
[7][8]
The Batillus was a supertanker built in 1976 by Chantiers de l'Atlantique at Saint-Nazaire for the French branch of Shell Oil. The first vessel of the Batillus class, she was, together with her sister ships Bellamya, Pierre Guillaumat and Prairial, one of the biggest ships in the world, surpassed in size only by Seawise Giant[10][11] (later Jahre Viking, Happy Giant and Knock Nevis) built in 1976, and extended in 1981, although the four ships of the Batillus class had a larger gross tonnage. She was sold for scrap in 1985 after a prolonged downturn in the oil market made her economically impractical.
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