Berge Emperor
History | |
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Name: | Berge Emperor |
Owner: | Bergesen d.y. |
Port of registry: | Stavanger, Norway |
Yard number: | 1004[1] |
Launched: | 30 August 1975[1] |
In service: | 1975–1985 |
Identification: | IMO number: 7379917 |
Fate: | Scrapped, Kaohsiung, Taiwan April 1986[2] |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Supertanker |
Tonnage: | |
Length: | 391.83 m (1,285.5 ft)[1] |
Beam: | 68.05 m (223.3 ft)[1] |
Draught: | 22.788 m (74.76 ft)[1] |
Installed power: | 2 X Stal-Laval turbines[1] |
Speed: | 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph) [1] |
The Berge Emperor was a supertanker built in 1975 in Japan by Mitsui.[1] At 391.83 m (1,285.5 ft) she was one of the world's longest ships.[1]
She was launched on 30 August 1975.[1] The ship was owned by Bergesen d.y. & Co. but was sold to Maastow BV in 1985 and renamed as Emperor.[1] The ship was scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan on 30 March 1986.[2]
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