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Bellamya
The ''Bellamya'' was a supertanker, built in 1976 by Chantiers de l'Atlantique at Saint-Nazaire for the French branch of Shell Oil. It was the second Batillus class supertanker. ''Bellamya'', together with her sister ships ''Batillus, Pierre Guillaumat'' and ''Prairial'', was one of the biggest ships in the world, surpassed in size only by ''Seawise Giant''〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.aukevisser.nl/supertankers/id23.htm )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.aukevisser.nl/supertankers/id132.htm )〕 (later ''Jahre Viking, Happy Giant'' and ''Knock Nevis'') built in 1976, and extended in 1981, although the four ships of the Batillus class had a larger gross tonnage. If size is indicated by gross tonnage--a measure of volume--''Bellamya'' was the largest ship ever built.
== History ==
The contract to build the Batillus class supertankers was signed on April 6, 1971, and the first sheet metal was cut in January 1975. Meanwhile, the oil shock caused by the Yom Kippur War in October 1973 resulted in higher oil prices and reduced imports by industrialized countries. The cancellation of the orders was seriously considered, but Shell concluded that it was better to continue, mostly to not put the shipyard in a very difficult position by withdrawing such a huge, already initiated project (the work commitments were already well advanced, with extremely heavy cancellation charges). It was also hoped for an improvement in market conditions.
The ship was completed and put in service in 1976, months after the completion of her sister ship ''Batillus'', and that of the new, purposely built, oil terminal Antifer, near Le Havre, one of very few ports in the world capable of accommodating Batillus class tankers.
The international oil market however, did not improve; her size also placed restrictions on where she could be employed, and this must have led to her early demise. Active service ended when ''Bellamya'' was laid up at Vestnes, Norway, on January 26, 1984, and she arrived at Ulsan, South Korea on January 6, 1986 to be scrapped.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.odt.co.nz/news/business/84784/size-restricts-vessels039-employment )〕
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