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 The Batillus at the end of her construction in Saint-Nazaire.
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| History | |
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| Name | Batillus. |
| Owner | Societe Maritime Shell, France |
| Port of registry |  Fos-sur-Mer |
| Builder | |
| Yard number | V 25[1] |
| Laid down | May 18, 1975 |
| Launched | June 25, 1976 |
| Completed | 1976 |
| Maiden voyage | 1976 |
| In service | 1976 |
| Out of service | 1983 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 1985. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Batillus, ULCC |
| Tonnage | |
| Displacement | 630,962 t[5] |
| Length | 414.22 m (1,359 ft 0 in)[2] |
| Beam | 63.01 m (206 ft 9 in) |
| Draft | 28.50 m (93 ft 6 in) |
| Installed power | 67 ,800 Hp[6] |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h) |
| Notes | [8][9] |
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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- ^ "Knock Nevis ex. Jahre Viking". Auke Visser's International Super Tankers.