Is this the largest ship (not yacht)?

Well it ain't a yacht, but it IS BIG! Where is it offloading in those pics?

Thanks for posting this. As often on the net, you are looking for more info and surf around to end up in another world...

I found that the second largest Ultra-Large tanker was recently s c r a pped on a beach in Pakistan. Together with India, Bangladesh and China they are s c r apping 90 percent of all ships, under not the best conditions and the ship owners are also sending ships that should have been better cleaned from hazardious materials such as asbestos.
Greenpeace are watching this and in France, the old workforce who once built the then largest passenger ship Norway, is now trying to block the same ship to prevent it being s c r a pped at the Indian beaches without being cleaned out of asbestos first. They don´t like to see the history repeat itself...

Norway is 315 m long and the 1960 price tag was USD 80 million. To compare with the new Queen Mary 2, 345 m long at a price of USD 800 million!

Did you know that QM2 has a system allowing her to stay in a position without anchoring? With GPS and wind gauges, her four electric pods can keep her above a coral reef without causing any damage as the anchoring should.

To get us back to yachts, this is the same system as one of the worlds largest yachts, Octopus has...

Edit; the s c r a p-word is not allowed, why I had to stretch it a little..

Just going back to the tanker, how long does it take to turn that thing around or bring it to a halt?

Probably longer than you want to know if you had it approaching you...
The 50.000 hp engines only goes with 83 rpm which is telling you something about how fast the reactions would be on an emergency stop. Fortunately she will no longer travel the seven seas so we will not be at risk.

conversion

Can a football player and convert it in a soccer court?
Well... can a sportsman set all courts onto the deck?

You can probably call it semi-retired as she will be used as a Floating Storage and Offtake carrier in Quatar. I doubt she will travel as a regular tanker anymore?