it took more than a year and 18,000 workers to break it down and turn it into scrap. Humans never again dared to make another ship of the magnitude of the Seawise Giant. In the late 1970s ...

Technically, the largest ship in the world was the Seawise Giant, an oil tanker that was built in 1979, later scrapped in 2010. At a gross tonnage of 260,941, and a length of 1,504 feet (458 ...