List of world's largest ships by gross tonnage

This is a list of some of the world's largest ships by gross tonnage
Gross tonnage
Gross tonnage is a unitless index related to a ship's overall internal volume. Gross tonnage is different from gross register tonnage...

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Overall listing

Name	Class	Type	Length	Beam	Draft	Gross Tonnage	Status	Main builder	Operator
Batillus Batillus class supertankers The Batillus-class supertanker is a class of the biggest ships by gross tonnage ever constructed. At , and 414-metres, the four vessels were built in the Louis Joubert Lock, and launched from the shipyards of Chantiers de l'Atlantique at Saint Nazaire, France at the end of the 1970s.The only other...	Batillus class Batillus class supertankers The Batillus-class supertanker is a class of the biggest ships by gross tonnage ever constructed. At , and 414-metres, the four vessels were built in the Louis Joubert Lock, and launched from the shipyards of Chantiers de l'Atlantique at Saint Nazaire, France at the end of the 1970s.The only other...	Supertanker	414.22 metre	63.01 metre	28.5 metre	275,268	Scrapped	Chantiers de l'Atlantique Chantiers de l'Atlantique Chantiers de l'Atlantique is part of the South Korean STX Shipbuilding Group and one of the world's largest shipyards, based in Saint-Nazaire, France...	Société Maritime Shell France Royal Dutch Shell Royal Dutch Shell plc , commonly known as Shell, is a global oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. It is the fifth-largest company in the world according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine and one of the six...
Bellamya Batillus class supertankers The Batillus-class supertanker is a class of the biggest ships by gross tonnage ever constructed. At , and 414-metres, the four vessels were built in the Louis Joubert Lock, and launched from the shipyards of Chantiers de l'Atlantique at Saint Nazaire, France at the end of the 1970s.The only other...	Batillus class	Supertanker	414.22 metre	63.01 metre	28.5 metre	275,268	Scrapped	Chantiers de l'Atlantique Chantiers de l'Atlantique Chantiers de l'Atlantique is part of the South Korean STX Shipbuilding Group and one of the world's largest shipyards, based in Saint-Nazaire, France...	Société Maritime Shell France Royal Dutch Shell Royal Dutch Shell plc , commonly known as Shell, is a global oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. It is the fifth-largest company in the world according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine and one of the six...
Sea Brilliance Batillus class supertankers The Batillus-class supertanker is a class of the biggest ships by gross tonnage ever constructed. At , and 414-metres, the four vessels were built in the Louis Joubert Lock, and launched from the shipyards of Chantiers de l'Atlantique at Saint Nazaire, France at the end of the 1970s.The only other... (ex. Pierre Guillaumat)	Batillus class	Supertanker	414.22 metre	63.01 metre	28.5 metre	274,838	Scrapped	Chantiers de l'Atlantique Chantiers de l'Atlantique Chantiers de l'Atlantique is part of the South Korean STX Shipbuilding Group and one of the world's largest shipyards, based in Saint-Nazaire, France...	Cie Nationale de Nav
Sea Giant Batillus class supertankers The Batillus-class supertanker is a class of the biggest ships by gross tonnage ever constructed. At , and 414-metres, the four vessels were built in the Louis Joubert Lock, and launched from the shipyards of Chantiers de l'Atlantique at Saint Nazaire, France at the end of the 1970s.The only other... (ex. Prairial, Hellas Fos)	Batillus class	Supertanker	414.22 metre	63.01 metre	28.5 metre	274,838	Scrapped	Chantiers de l'Atlantique Chantiers de l'Atlantique Chantiers de l'Atlantique is part of the South Korean STX Shipbuilding Group and one of the world's largest shipyards, based in Saint-Nazaire, France...	Cie Nationale de Nav
Seawise Giant (later Knock Nevis, Happy Giant, Jahre Viking)	-	Supertanker	458.45 metre	68.8 metre	24.61 metre	260,941	Scrapped	Sumitomo Heavy Industries Sumitomo Heavy Industries Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. is an integrated manufacturer of industrial machinery, automatic weaponry, ships, bridges and steel structure, equipment for environmental protection, including recycling, power transmission equipment, plastic molding machines, laser processing systems, particle...	Orient Overseas Container Line Orient Overseas Container Line Orient Overseas Container Line is a Hong Kong-based container shipping and logistics service company.OOCL is one of the world's largest shipping and logistics companies with more than 280 offices in 55 countries around the world, providing 78 services covering international trading markets with a...
Esso Atlantic	Esso Atlantic class	Supertanker	406.57 metre	71.07 metre	25.29 metre	259,532	Scrapped	Hitachi Zosen Corporation	Esso Tankers Inc. Liberia
Sea World (ex. King Alexander, Nanny)	-	Supertanker	364 metre	79.03 metre	24.03 metre	245,100	Scrapped	Uddevallavarvet	Addison Sg. & Tdg. S.A.
TI Asia	TI Class	ULCC	379 metre	68 metre	24.525 metre	234,006	In service as FSO	Daewoo Daewoo Daewoo or the Daewoo Group was a major South Korean chaebol . It was founded on 22 March 1967 as Daewoo Industrial and was dismantled by the Korean government in 1999...	Tankers International
Oasis of the Seas	Oasis Class	Cruise Ship Cruise ship A cruise ship or cruise liner is a passenger ship used for pleasure voyages, where the voyage itself and the ship's amenities are part of the experience, as well as the different destinations along the way...	360 metre	47 metre	9 metre	225,282	In Service	STX Europe	Royal Caribbean International Royal Caribbean International Royal Caribbean International is a Norwegian and American cruise line brand based in Miami, Florida and owned by Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.. With 42 ships in service under 5 different brands and one more under construction, it controls a 25.6% share of the world cruise market...

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