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Also known as IMO 7360095

Batillus was a supertanker built in 1976 by Chantiers de l'Atlantique at Saint-Nazaire for the French branch of Shell Oil. The first vessel of the , she was, together with her sister ships , and Prairial, one of the biggest ships in the world, surpassed in size only by (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. She was sold for scrap in 1985 after a prolonged downturn in the oil market made her economically impractical.

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Instance of
oil tanker
Image
Batillus tanker in Saint-Nazaire.jpg
Width
63.01
Length
414.22
Speed
16
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Commons category
IMO 7360095
shipping port
Fos-sur-Mer
yard number
V 25
draft
28.6
call sign
FNWJ
beam
63.0
service entry
1976-00-00
country of registry
France
gross tonnage
275267
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