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Holy Ship!

Asked Sep 19, 2007, 05:48 AM — 17 Answers
Ran into this on the net. Wow!

The command bridge is higher than a 10-story building and has 11 crane rigs that can operate simultaneously.
Country of origin - Denmark
Length - 1,302 ft
Width - 207 ft
Net cargo - 123,200 tons (a quarter of a billion pounds!)
Engine - 14 in-line cylinders diesel engine (110,000 BHP)
Cruise Speed - 31 knots
Cargo capacity - 15,000 TEU (1 TEU = 20 ft3 container)
Crew - 13 people (holy cow! Just 13 people to run that monster?)
First Trip - Sept. 08, 2006
Construction cost - US $145,000,000+

Silicone painting applied to the ship bottom reduces water resistance and saves 317,000 gallons of diesel per year.

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Sep 19, 2007, 05:53 AM
Is that the Emma Mearsk?

Absolutely amazing feat of engineering!

Only has a crew of 13 people as well! Imagine the games of hide-and-seek you could have on there with 13 people! It'd go on for MONTHS!! ha ha!

Bet I.K.B. would have loved to have seen this!
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Sep 19, 2007, 05:55 AM
Oops, I left that out. Yes, it is the Emma Maersk.

Yes, pretty flippin amazing! I just keep saying "wow" to myself.
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Sep 19, 2007, 05:57 AM
How many ports/harbours can handle her???

BTW nice job on the subject line.
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Sep 19, 2007, 05:57 AM
Love the comparison to the Titanic and QMII here;


I'm with NK btw, good subject line! Lol!
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Sep 19, 2007, 06:01 AM
Haha, I looked for a character map item that looked in-between a t and a p just to catch some attention but could not find one
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Sep 19, 2007, 06:12 AM
Arggh that be a mighty fine ship, may have to commandere it.....har har har! Booty!!
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Sep 19, 2007, 06:13 AM
I wonder what the retail value of the cargo on a typical trip would be. Has to be astronomical.
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Sep 19, 2007, 06:20 AM
Must be an absolutely awesome sight when it is pulling into port! I have seen the Queen Mary 2 pulling in and I was dumbstruck by it's size. I wonder how long it took to build, how many men, and how they managed the complexity of bringing it all together into one piece. Just mindboggling.
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Sep 19, 2007, 06:22 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by alkalineangel
Arggh that be a mighty fine ship, may have to commandere it.....har har har! Booty!!
If you did nick it ... where would you take it?! Lol! I bet it wouldn't make the best getaway vehicle!



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I wonder what the retail value of the cargo on a typical trip would be. Has to be astronomical.
I guess it depends what all those thousands of containers actually contain!
When it came to England it dropped off 3000 containers full of Chinese toys just in time for Christmas!

I'm guessing that it would be much more expensive if it was dropping off a few thousand containers full of BMWs ... or even better GOLD DUBLOONS! he he!
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