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Biggest Factory Ship In The World

Biggest Factory Ship In The World

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Vsevolod Sibirtse

The Vsevolod Sibirtsev is

Vsevolod Sibirtse

The Vsevolod Sibirtsev is the world’s biggest factory ship, known for its size, capabilities, and history.

A factory vessel or a fish processing ship has extensive facilities onboard for processing and freezing the fish. Modern factory ships are automated and bigger than the earlier whalers.

A few of them serve as mother ships, which is a massive ship that carries smaller fishing boats that return to the mother ship with their catch.

Coming back to the biggest factory ship, it is known for dealing with massive volumes of seafood daily.

It is 179 m long, 28 m wide and 45 m high with a 7.9 m draft. It has a displacement of 26,634 tonnes and a maximum speed of 14.9 knots, driven by 6,480 horsepower diesel engines.

Vsevolod Sibirtse
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Operational History

The biggest factory ship was built in Finland, in 1989 during the Soviet Union period and was named after a revolutionary figure, Vsevolod Sibirtsev.

The ship was said to be one of the most advanced

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