Was working on New Drillship Ben Ocean Lancer at repair Quay alongside World Score

Jim, thanks for the info, there's a photo of "World Score" actually being built at Scott Lithgow here on shipspotting.com.

Now, however, I see that there is a difference between "building a ship in two halves" and what I am witnessing now going on at Daewoo: while they do build the aft half and launch it, after they put it back into the construction dock they just continue adding hull blocks, so there is no forward half waiting to be joined with her aft sister...

Frank, I will upload her side view so we can have a better look at the size of her funnel...

Cheers

Vlad

The funnel is bigger than the accommodation block !!!

Scott Lithgow Builds World Score and World Scholar !978

Well, sometimes I tend to post these rule defying photos... :)

Thanks for the good wishes, Jens, I hope you had a great Easter!

Cheers

Vlad

Full ships only please, see the site standards! :-))

Happy Easter Vlad.

Cheers,
Jens

I didn't know about that particular yard, but Uljanik in Croatia also used to build large OBO carriers in two halves about 50 years ago. The technology itself is well established, and was the result of constraints of the slipway or dry dock.

Here at Daewoo, the size of their "Dry dock No. 1" allows for the construction of two full-sized VLCCs side by side, plus two halves. The other dry dock has similar length, but is narrower, so it allows "one and a half" ship.

Cheers

Vlad

I am sure you know that the NDSM yard in Amsterdam constructed VLCC's two halves 50 years ago...