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Oil tanker is the biggest of them all

THE largest ship in the world is not a passenger liner or even a battleship - it is an oil tanker

THE largest ship in the world is not a passenger liner or even a battleship - it is an oil tanker

The largest of the huge oil-carrying ships, called supertankers, is a French vessel that weighs more than half a million tons. The Pierre Guillaumat is 414m long and can carry more than 20million barrels of oil each year. - bigsiteofamazingfacts.com; skyscrapercity.com; wikipedia.org

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