In partnership with the Port of Rotterdam, the ship will be taken to Maasvlakte 2, an extension of the port, where a special pit has been drained to house the vessel. RELATED: REAL VESSELS THAT INSPIRED PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN SHIPS. However, the team at PlanetSolar has developed a 100 ft (31 mt) long, 50 ft (15 mt) wide craft that is able to capture nearly 103.4 kW of solar energy to power its 20 kW engine. But the National Defence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 slated the ship's retirement for 2013, when she will have served for 51 consecutive years, longer than any other U.S. aircraft carrier. The comments below have not been moderated. At 342 m  (1,123 ft), she is the longest naval vessel in the world. Ocean liners, which are designed to travel long voyages, often encounter severe weather. It took tens of thousands of laborers to complete the task of stripping it apart. The Knock Nevis is one of the world's largest ships Source: Nils Koch/Wikimedia. It's not financially viable. The 35-crew ship had a cruising speed of 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) and was propelled by a single propeller, 30 ft (9 mt) in diameter. Only its 36-tonne anchor was saved, where it now resides at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum - the last remaining relic of a truly legendary ocean beast. Slower than its predecessors, this class uses a strategy known as slow steaming, which is expected to lower fuel consumption by 37% and carbon dioxide emissions per container by 50%. The ship was named the Queen Mary 2 by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004 after the first RMS Queen Mary, completed in 1936. One of the class's main design features is its dual 32-megawatt (43,000 hp) ultra-long stroke two-stroke diesel engines, driving two propellers at a design speed of 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph). She sails through the waters of the Mediterranean and the Adriatic Sea during summer, and the Caribbean in the winter. Her owners declared her a write-off. The Oasis of the Seas is estimated to have cost roughly €900 million($1.24 billion) making it the most expensive commercial ship ever built. She was too long and wide to navigate waters that weren't deep enough - among them the English Channel, Egypt's Suez Canal and the Panama Canal. The Oasis of the Seas and the Allure of the Seas facilitate Eastern and Western Caribbean cruises for seven nights, and to be a passenger on one of these giants is truly a spectacular experience. While anchored off Iran's Larak Island in shallow waters, carrying Iranian oil, the Seawise Giant was targeted and hit by Iraqi parachute bombs. TI Asia and TI Africa were converted into FSO oil storage vessels in 2010. In a second refurbishment in 1990, the tonnage was increased again to 76,049 GT. The largest ship ever built is the Knock Nevis, a supertanker 458 meters (1504 ft) in length and 69 m (226 ft) in width.Its dry weight is 564,763 tonnes, 647,955 tonnes when fully loaded with oil. Pictured here is the ship after she was renamed the 'Jahre Viking', She was so mighty that even after being sunk by Saddam Hussain's missiles during the Iraq war of 1988 (pictured) and declared a write-off, she was dragged from the seabed and resurrected to serve 21 more years, The rudder alone weighed 230 tonnes - the equivalent of 46 elephants - the propeller 50 tonnes, and the ship itself weighed more than 657,000 tonnes when fully-loaded - making it the largest ship of its kind ever made. Built for the Royal Caribbean company, they were delivered in 2009, 2010, and 2016 respectively. The Pieter Schelte left South Korea on 19th November 2014 and is due to arrive at the port for completion in December. The Explorer class is a series of large containerships built for CMA CGM. The project was conceived by Raphaël Domjan who, together with Frenchman Gérard d'Aboville, made the world's first trip around the world entirely powered by solar energy. The Maersk E Series comprises eight 14,770 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) container ships. The CSCL Globe was the first of five 19,000 TEU container ships ordered by China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) in 2013. The FLNG in the ship stands for Floating Liquefied Natural Gas. It is the third ship in the world to have crossed the 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent units. Club Med 2's sister ship, Club Med 1 was sold to Windstar Cruises in 1998 and renamed the Wind Surf. Although the RMS Queen Mary 2 is 50 ft (15 mt) shorter than larger cruise liners, she remains the largest ocean liner ever built.