The Jahre Viking - LARGEST MAN-MADE MOVING MACHINE! | Jeremy Clarkson's Extreme Machines | Top Gear
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- Опубліковано 14 сер 2008
- Jeremy takes a tour around the Jahre Viking, the biggest moving man made object on the planet whilst it travels around the Cape of Good hope of the coast of Southern Africa. Vintage Clarkson and mind blowing statisn in this auto review from the BBC show 'Jeremy Clarksons Extreme Machines'.
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I imagine with 35 people, it'd be quite shocking to run into one of your colleagues.
"Oh Dave, been a few weeks since I saw you. Where've you been?"
"On this boat."
Awkward moment at its finest 😂
"I actually fell overboard a couple days ago, near the bow.. just climbed up here this morning."
🤣🤣🤣🤣👍🏼
mentilly all "oh must have been quite nice, I was just doing the usual errands, standing at the edge and rethinking my life choices"
😂
Five and a half mile braking distance.. Needs a set of carbon ceramics.
John McMahon 😂😂😂😂
You mean "brakes made of silcone carbi....🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
I break after moving five and a half miles under my own steam, too.
I'm no grammar Nazi but it's "braking"
And a pop/up rear wing, air brake thing.
Only a 2 mile turning radius? That's about on par with most American busses and Harley Davidson Dyna Glide models...
I laughed way too hard at this, and i never laugh, so it must be true
I got a dyna glide custom wideglide fxdc, I can indeed confirm 2.2 mile turning circle.
Ktm xbow?
@Dave Pawson twat
And every American car
2 miles turning radius? So about the same as Jeremy’s giant Panda limousine.
The same turning radius as Jezza's Prius....
That's where he got the inspo for it - same colour, too!
I FINALLY decide to watch a random episode of Top Gear tonight and when I finish and this video is recommended to me I get this as top comment, what are the fucking odds lmao
2 miles hahaha
Never before bread in captivity
Now we need Stig to lap it !
"... And across the line in: 4 months, 25 days, 9 hours, and 3 minutes!"
Metalistforlife U want stig to lap a scrapped boat? ( I get your joke, don't worry)
Oh no! It's all gone wrong! Stiggy is stuck in the loo and cant get out of the engine because he doesn't understand directions outside of a racetrack.
Do you mean do a lap in it or around it? Either way I'd still like to see it 😀
it would cross the finish line before the rear end's crossed the starting line!
Must take half hour to run to a life boat.
yep -
the ship was so big they had bicycles to travel from one end to the other
Imagine the time needed for sinking this ship
@@plazasta Not bisycles, mopeds. And most big tankers do.
I think it sank from one or two anti ship missiles during the tanker war
Suez Canal:
*(Chuckles) I’m in danger*
😂😂
This thing has been already scraped few years ago. And the tanker as well.
@@hagestad someone missed the joke
@@ourmilotin2819 that's necrophilia son
The fact that it's going around the cape of south Africa implies to me it's already banned from the Suez Canal.
"And there's only 2 lifeboats."
The lifeboats are smaller freighters.
Imagine a 1/720 scale model of this behemoth.It would be the size of a small real life fishing boat!🤣🤣🤣
Welp, this is an unsinkable boat, right?
"And over here on the stern of the JV we can see the Captain's personal launch" - points to the IJN Yamato
@@jakecollins3669 it sank in the persian gulf war.
@@spiroagnew3909 - nope, it didn´t
That pipe organ music is perfect for this.
Gwasgray fyi..Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565...
The first piece is 'Mars, Bringer of war' by Gustav Holst. The second is Toccata and Fugue.
They call big engines " cathedrals"
The engines on these ships are called cathedral engines. So it makes even more sense.
I mean, the machinery spaces in these beasts are cathedrals!
"They fitted a hideous gargoyle... on the bow"
*zooms in on clarkson* 🤣
Yep. Watched it! You're American, aren't you?
@@dunruden9720 Irish 👌
Wooondus same thing 🧐
😂
Would be cool if it had an actual gargoyle.
This video has been around for 12 years and I am simply amazed that it continue to attract so many comments. I use to be Captain of large oil tankers in my sailing years and one of the operations we do at sea is oil transfer from ultra large tankers to large tankers. That is when I came across this monster in Gulf of Mexico in the 90s. My ship was a 100,000 ton tanker and next to her, felt like sitting in a lifeboat.
We get amazed by human achievements, the Apollo, ISS, bullet trains, fastest jets and the list goes on, but for seafarers, a profession that gets attention all for the wrong reasons, she is indeed our proudest because she sits up there among the greatest ever.
Very big indeed
Shush child, moon landing was fake, remove Apollo from the list!
Comments come from generation z garbage who don't contribute... only in video games and weeb and Otaku garbage! World War 3 would wipe them out easy!
Those were the days of the real seafarers and nowadays our own kids can't even walk for few hundred metres people and the seafarers were rough and tough in the time gone by
I have immense respect for those who put out to sea. You are truly a special breed. I couldn't have the courage to go out on the ocean in *anything!* One storm at sea and my career would be over. 😏⚓
Back in the day when you needed 2 helicopters with million dollar camera equipment to shoot such footage. Now a $500 drone can do better in 4k
Yes, it really is quite crazy to think about!
Hey, can you tell me when this was filmed?
@@alexanderhagmanwilberg640 This series is over 20 years old. Aired in 1998 I believe
Out at sea? Round the bottom of Cape Hope? In winter?
Can the drones today manage to run in the windy conditions?
@@nvignesh yep. A small non cinema standard dji phantom 4 has a 15mi wind resistance. Tv and movie productions use slightly bigger drones with more powerful motors usually custom or attached with a dedicated mirrorless camera
It had many names across the years:
Seawise Giant (1979-1989)
Happy Giant (1989-1991)
Jahre Viking (1991-2004)
Knock Nevis (2004-2009)
Mont (2009-2010)
It's one and the same ship, don't get confused (like me) when searching on google images "which one is bigger". :-) It's one and the same. :-)
Johnnie Walker thank you! I was like "isn't the Knock Nevis bigger?!"
Exactly.
:-)
I asked myself the same question.
Johnnie Walker there was 2 more names before that which were porthos and oppama in 1976. It was originally ordered by Greek owners who refused delivery because of engine vibration.
Gman k
Thank you! I din't know that.
The Mont got extended so some of those names might show pictures of a shorter version of the ship.
Jeremy Clarkson knows how to make fantastic videos
+bread_n_butter the BBC doesn't agree xD
Yes they did, they didn't agree with the jew bashing however (which normal ppl don't care about).
I hope you wanted to write "jaw" :) Clarkson sometimes acts like a spoiled, irresponsible kid but I think he has never bashed any Jew... Or maybe I missed some of his shenanigans?
bread_n_butter you mean the BBC’s editors and film crew do...
vzdorr b it’s pretty cringe
That little "oh crap it moved" at 1:26 makes me laugh every time.
ua-cam.com/video/Wy0lMRNVqmM/v-deo.html
Every time? What do you have like a ritual of watching this 24 year old video?
You don’t?
Tonight, on Top Gear: I get the Jahre Viking stuck in the Suez Canal, Richard crashes a car, and James eats some cheese
This ship was actually to big to even be considered to go through lmaow
lol
oh how I miss those times.
I wonder how fast it would go around the test track
top speed of 10mph, a few hundred thousand horse power
i think it's longer than the test track
Same size as like thousands of tracks so like 00:00 time
The track could probably do laps on the boat tbh
This can go 9 knots, a lot slower than her older war sister, the Yamato (27 knots)
I had the honour of lightering this vessel at Gulf of Mexico in 1998... I was on board Jahre Progress a very decent size vessel, which looked like a small boat infront of this giant.... our head and stern lines became its springs
why not sinking
@Nihar Bendre 3 years ago? The Jahre was already scrapped 3 years ago.
@Nihar Bendre Well looks like I cant read lol
Clarkson: "Watch as I pilot this barge THROUGH the Suez Canal at MAX POWER!"
May: "CLARKSON YOU ABSOLUTE BUFFOON!!"
it’s funny eh.. a lot of old ship news comes up & to light after #mar20s2021 #mar20th2021 #march20th2021 😆 as well popping into people’s feeds
It is curved a bit, to follow the earths curvature.
The earth is flat just do your research...
Is it for real? That's actually really interesting
@@GMSdackel1 I did my research. I went and I measured it. Front to end, it is off for 0,0002mm.
@@juanordonezgalban2278 yes, it is true.
nice bullshit... 0.002mm ? WTF... is not even possible such precision for a single small machined metal component, just imagine hundreds of meters of ship made out of thousand of steel plates and bars.
the water pressure and movement itself cause far higher flex over the structure.
Now imagine this being stuck in Suez Canal.
It wouldn’t even get into the Suez. Suez Max draft is 66 feet. Jahre Viking had a fully ladened draft of 80.74 feet.
@@CarFreeSegnitz it could block it off at the entrance
no
If it takes 5 miles to stop and 2 miles to turn around, why not turn around twice
I’m a moron and shower thoughts
Because that would be fucking stupid, that's why 😂😂😂
@@fukawininetynine5999 How did that happen, Mr Fukawi?
Well played.
Turning radius = 2 miles
Circumference would be pi*r^2 which is 4pi miles or approx 12 miles, much more than 5 miles
- *"Its the largest, moving, man made object.......on the planet."*
That just doesnt have the same ring to it.
How come?
@@dma968
Jeremy Clarkson is well known for adding "...in the world." at the end of sentences when emphasizing the greatness of something. Over the years it became a running joke. So when he said "...on the planet." a part of me was disappointed lol
"and on that terrible disappointment..."
Maybe the bbc has copyrights to "the world".
The largest moving, man-made object... *Bouse* ...in the world
Was scrapped 10 years ago now I believe :-(
unfortunately.They should kept her as a museum.
xkecoupe I love ships, but that’s a lot of steel they could use.
@@xkecoupe Its too large to be kept as museum. But you can visit "Hong Kong Maritime Museum" where you can find its 36 tonne anchor perfectly preserved.
Yeah I saw the original, this is just an excerpt from the program. IIRC the original ended with it being scrapped.
@@xkecoupe FUN FACT.. this ship transported very little oil, becouse its to big and deep for most ports.
it was mostly used as a buffer ore storage tank near big oilfields.
so that say a 100.000 ton ship could be loaded in hours instead of weeks-- months.
when the JAHRE VIKING moved to a new plase it was mainly becouse they buildt a permanent land based tank ore the oilfield it was in produced less. ore went empty.
1,504ft long, 226ft wide, weighed 261,000 tonnes empty. Filled with oil, she weighed 646,600 tonnes and sat 81ft into the water. Her maximum speed was 16 knots (18mph). Her rudder weighed 209 tonnes and her propeller was 35ft across with a weight of 57 tonnes. It's roughly 1.8x the size of Titanic.
To say that it was 1.8 times the size of the Titanic is misleading. Today the Titanic is a small ship. It was actually far, far bigger than the Titanic. It was 1.8 times longer but the Titanic’s beam was a mere 92 ft. compared to 225 ft. for the Knock Nevis, displacement of 51,000 compared to 82,000, draft of 35 ft. compared to 80 ft. 46,000 Gross Register Tonnage compared to 261,000 Gross Tonnage. Nope! The Titanic was way, way smaller.
RIP Jahre Viking
@@kasperknutsen8283 are you broken in the head?
Yep
@@odinvik7821 It was beached in Gujrat India and scrapped in 2009.
So much for professional Indian captains 😂
@@Cal97g it was because because it didn't meet the regulations anymore,this is a single hull tanker. Modern rules need them to be double hulled
I'm glad the Captain is calm and collected.
I feel sorry for him, dealing with arrogant, condesceding dickhead like Clarkson must have been a major pita.
@@petr7694 couldn’t agree more what a bell end
I was on the USS Eisenhower, which at one time, was the largest warship in the world. It was about 1100 ft long and displaced 95,000 tons. This ship literally dwarfs it.
Thank you for your service. From the bottom of my heart. I keep you all in my prayers. I wish you calm seas and good fortune 🌹⚓
@@miapdx503???
It's hard to even comprehend something so big.
Humans truly are amazing when they put their minds to task.
It reminds me of the spaceship from alien!
I think the crew is also pretty small!
Who got this into their recommended after the Evergreen ship got stuck in Suez Canal ?
yeh
it’s called ever given
@@vishnumohan2363 It's still an Evergreen ship, as it's operated by Evergreen Marine.
@@aexetan2769 but not owned by them
@@enricocarrara4741 Evergreen leased the ship from the shipyard and named it in their EverG style. It's effectively but not legally their ship.
That ship is now a zillion+ razor blades.
True
This came in everybody's recommendations right after the Ever Given Ship got stuck lmao.
Oh look, he has hair.
Lol 😆
FoLliClEs
That's what chief Brody had in mind probably when he said 'you're gonna need a bigger boat '
Nice.
Megladons mother
On the back of this vessel it read "FUCKING TRY IT, JAWS!".
even tho she´s "just" an oil tanker, I wish they had preserved her, she truely was a testimonoy to what we humans could achieve!
Only problem is that's a massive thing to preserve... where the hell would you put her?
@@DueySR shouldnt be too difficult,many of the US aircraft Carriers have been preseeved ,and they arent small either
The world wars are what we are known for, all for money
@@pilummurialis6490 thats is wrong on so many levels....
the only problem is where would you keep her? far too big to be dry-docked basically anywhere permanently and the same goes for wet docking
I certainly hope a ship like this doesnt get stuck in the suez canal in 2021
They don't even try its to big
Suez Max draft is 66 feet. Jahre Viking had a fully ladened draft of 80.74 feet.
The one that got stuck is already one of the largest ships on the planet.
@@Someone-yt8le When you realize South Korea ship builders built 12 of those back in 2020 alone for a single company. There's a whole lot of *T H I C C* in the ocean now than in 2019
@@AmongUs-mb4qx The one that got stuck was made in Japan and driven by a Suez pilot assisting an Indian crew hired by a German subcontractor. The ones made in Korea are so well built that when one had a problem there, it didn't get stuck, it just went to port for repairs.
Geez! That's amazing.You know you could fit 50.176 _billion_ matchboxes inside and still have room for an ice-cream?
This ship alone is responsible for rising sea levels globally. If it ever “sank”, it would create an entire new continent. There must be inhabitants there that still never met in person before.
It did sink once
I don't think so
@@SubscribersWithoutAnyVid-bd1dv it did and they recovered and fixed it. You can do the research and you'll see ;)
I don't get how sinking and raising the sea levels further would create a new continent, but ok.
It actually sank in 1990. Got caught in crossfire and was hit by anti-ship missiles.
It's so big I wouldn't be surprised if there's still half of it left to scrap after all this time
UA-cam recommending this just as a shipping barge is freed from blocking the Suez canal.
I’ve seen it in the harbor as a kid. It’s absolutely obscene how big it is.
Only OG fans will remember the days when Top Gear was actually a show about ships... XD
The Suez Canal: Why do i hear boss music?
Excellent reply given by the Captain to the reporter 😀😀👍
something about the indian accent when speaking calmly is really soothing, and makes you feel calm (more so than most variants of the accents)
What's the turning circle of that beast? Halfway across the North Atlantic?!
Watch the video and learn.
In fair weather, 2.2 miles to 2.8 miles, but this depends heavily on the weather.
Idiot
@@Herttaseiska ok boomer
I like how this host just insults the captain like it’s nothing.
“I’ve been to your land and your people can’t drive, and you’re the captain of this vessel?”
Typical British Racism.
@@doublestrokeroll It's called humour you dullard.
@@Zerofightervi nope. it isn't. and you're a POS for apologizing for it.
@@doublestrokeroll Who said I said was an apology?
I'm explaining it to you because you're probably the kind of person who needs warning labels.
@@Zerofightervi OK tough guy....lol
Just another anti PC backlash moron. Nothing is ever racist or sexist or homophobic to you idiots.
If you don't see how uncomfortable and offended that guy was when Clarkson made that comment....you really are a pos.
legends claim the Jahre Viking is still braking.
Long gone - Was beached in 2009 at Alang, Gujarat ship breaking yard..
Sad to know that two of the greatest machines ever built by man no longer exist in this world. Something that once conquered the ocean and something that once conquered the sky.
*Seawise Giant or (Mont)
and
*Antonov An-225 Mriya
Truely the legends and thank you for your service!
Concorde also
@@ercanyesiltasConcorde was tiny in comparising!
Saturn V rocket
You forgot about Big Muskie the world's largest dragline ever made and unfortunately that was scrapped as well.
@@theunemployedtrucker you right! I can’t remember them all.
THE SUEZ ALGORITHM BROUGHT ME HERE
glad this one didnt end up anywhere near the Suez Canal.
Sad that this thing was scrapped. Truly incredible piece of engineering.
Yes, tons of steel and more...all that work and it's gone. Just sad.
Why is this recommended right after the Evergreen incident?
It's the viking's turn
It’s crazy seeing Jeremy so young!
That takes me back, fifty years in fact...the largest Tanker ships then were in the 200,000 ton range then. My first time walking along the main deck was amazing, the size of the ship was staggering...when in port we were using walkie- talkie radios and Molton bicycles to get about the deck.
The greatest soundtrack ever. :D
She had a good life; survived her damage in the Iran/Iraq war and soldiered on to 2010. Built in 1976; 34 years is a bloody good life for a ship this size considering the costs of running/degredation from the ocean etc. RIP!!
UA-cam: let's recommend to this guy after 12 years
Very nice video. Was amazing ship!
I was hoping that the Stig would be at the wheel! that would be funny.
snaprollinpitts Stig is not born yet at this time
It wasn't on Top Gear, it was a programme that Clarkson made about 10 - 15 years ago on Massive machinery. Awesome ship and would love to see this thing in a dry dock to view it's massive scale
ua-cam.com/video/Wy0lMRNVqmM/v-deo.html
True, Clarkson did a lot of work before 2002 Top Gear.
It will always be the Seawise Giant.
Anyone here after that carrier ship got stuck in the suez canal?
Imagine that weaponized...
.. Or as an aircraft carrier...
To slow. Only did 17 knots and aircraft carriers are about twice as fast
Der Bleifuss
It's because it's not nuclear powered. They can make it go as fast as aircraft carrier. Maybe even faster if they want. But it's not practical and not needed.
Archoir what makes you think it isn't?
Wether it's nuclear power or not doesn't affect the speed. Nuclear powered just means you don't need to refuel doesn't mean you necessarily get more power. Nuclear power ships in my opinions are absolutely a waste of money. It doesn't reduc how often the ship has to go into port because the crew needs to eat and the money saved on refuelling over multiple years is still vastly overshadowed by the expense of building a nuclear powered ship in the first place
Now all we need is to try & make it cross the Suez Canal.
Awesome. thanks 👍
You could see the guy face changes when he says "professional right, yea"
They should take this to the Suez Canal.
Also, why is this in my feed now?
My hubby Melvin Michael worked on this beauty
UA-cam recommendations are just, perfect
I’m pretty sure this was the first bit of Top Gear I have ever watched. Quite a good video ngl.
She also holds the title for the largest ship sunk ever - having been sunk at her moorings by the Iraqi Air Force while loading oil in Iran during the Iran-Iraq war. She was later raised and repaired.
VersusARCH she was indeed hit by the Iraqi Air Force in February 1988 just before the end of the Iran-Iraq war when she was attacked by a group of Mirage F.1EQ-5s armed with Exocet anti-ship missiles whilst at Kharg Island. This ship’s sinking was the worst loss for Iran, affecting its oil exports for some time but unfortunately Iran’s operational fleet of Grumman F-14A Tomcats was very small (some 20 fully operational aircraft) and these had to be spread thinly across Iran’s vast landscape to protect important areas so they had a difficult task defending its vital oil facilities at Kharg, hence why Iraqi F.1s managed to slip past the island’s defences and sink this ship.
Well I guess she would be impossible to miss.
Actually it was a mistake. The Iraqi planes thought it was a carrier, the INS Saddam, and low in fuel and desperate they tried to land on it with predictable results.
So that also makes this ship the largest refloated ship.
Hammond driving this: "If this is the future, I'm so ready for it!!!"
Crashes into Madagascar and destroys it.
Destroys what? The boat or Madagascar?
@@foximacentauri7891 Both.
0:32 "And to ward off the bad weather, they've fitted a hideous gargoyle on the bow"
*camera zooms into Clarkson*
Spectacular piece of machinery
"We can hear it's engine roaring, while it awaits start signal aaaaand....0:00:00!!
That's the fastest ever has our track gone around anyone!"
Some say he ran off with Jack Sparrow hat once. And rumors have it that he threw Jonah off the boat in the Old Testament. All we know is he’s not the stig, he’s the stig’s pirate brother.
Fantastic....👏👏👏
They should have had a large sign at the stern of the ship reading "We brake for nobody".
(For those who have seen the opening shot of "Spaceballs" this reference is obvious)
I'm here 12 years later because of UA-cam recommendations
Yeah so am I
Well folks if you're here after March 2021, you know exactly why
Just incredible and beautiful 👍
0:59 Every single time I hear that I get goosebumps thinking "Back on the Rocks" is about to play. For a mighty machine like this, strangely fitting.
Thank god I wasn’t the only one who expected it
Imagine making a ship twice as big in every metric of having both double the width, double the length, double the height... that would be a massive ship I'd love to see
Jokes aside, I cannot believe how gargantuan this ship is. It almost seems impossible. Especially with how low it sits in the water under load. Even more insane that it was literally sitting at the bottom of the ocean before this video when it was sunk and it was somehow brought back to life. Again, unfrigginbelievable. More should have been saved of this ship.
Quite ironic receiving this in the recommendations now
Ironic how this is in my recommended now. I hope this beast never get's stuck in a canal.
Imagine if this got stuck in the Suez Canal lmao
The ship doesn‘t exist anymore, it got scrapped 10 years ago.
Yeah I know, it’s just for the jokes
With Evergiven stuck... Now UA-cam algo suggests the largest ship driven by an all Indian crew??!!
Gr8 video, this should have been much longer. No pun intended 🙂
I love that the video ends with "positively sprightly!" How up-beat a closing! lol
I was lucky enough to see this at sea years ago somewhere in the gulf with about a metre swell at ss5 the thing had the rigidity of a piece of a4 paper
But
Can it fit through the Suez canal though
Back in 1991 it passed through the suez canal
If anyone is interested, the music for most of it is Mars, from Gustav Holst’s; The Planets
Now let’s see how she handles around the track
Would be cool to have the captain of the ship do a talk show, about how it was to be the captain of such a ship
I think this could defiantly block the Suez Canal
Oh no, This video is 15 years old, which means this video was uploaded in 2008, possibly 4 years after UA-cam was first launched, oh my god, how are you, the reporter who boarded the ship?
As a Diver I assisted to help it float again when it was sunken. A Dutch company (Wijsmuller Salvage) had the contract.
I find it astounding that it is even possible to retrieve a ship of this size from the ocean bed. How did you do this?!?!