Google Earth's Biggest Ship Collection [V9.2 - 11.26.2024]

A collection of the longest ships visible in Google Earth, sorted by ship type and length. Historical finds preserved via timeslider.

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Includes: Bulk Carriers, Container Ships, Crane Vessels, Cruise Ships, FLNG Facilities, Floating Dry Docks, FPSO Units, Gas Carriers, Lake Freighters, Oil Tankers, Pipelayers, and Shipbreaking
Minimum Length: 300m

Current Max Length: 488m

GEBSC 9.2.kmz (139.21 KB) - Last updated: 11.26.2024

ET, there is a very good chance that spider has enabled the Google Earth Community Layer, on many occasions, whilst compiling his collection of Big Ships.


Did you know that THIS POST by nlfuchs1990 is an accepted collection in the Transportation forum on the oGEC that dates back to 2012 ?
(download the attached file and see for yourself the similarities )

Did you also know that the same nlfuchs1990 who created that collection has registered here on the nGEC as username " spiderx22 ",   ?,

(yep, same person) and he has simply re-posted his own collection here on the nGEC under his new username.

In fact, spiders contribution here is OK and quite welcomed.

So, have you contacted the other 10 posters that placemarked the same Aircraft Carrier on the oGEC and asked them the same question ?
(oh, BTW, there was actually one there that posted one year before the one you pointed out )


So please, what is your problem ?  or do you now feel like it would be a good idea to edit your reply ? 


Bryan, you've been given another chance here Mate, please don't go and screw it up by questioning and offending our members.

You can leave that up to us ! 

Thanks nostranger! <3

Yea, I changed usernames on this forum (forgot the password on my SpiderX22 username on the old forum ;p)

I was always bad at using the GEC layer icons, but tried to give credit for finds when I could.  There's only so many places ships can be though, so if I'm finding the ships by myself, I'll credit myself.

New update out now (April 11th).

New finds include:
2 x CSCL Globe-class (1312ft)
MS Quantum of the Seas (1139ft)
Q-Max LNG Tanker (1132ft)
Disney Dream (1115ft)
Disney Fantasy (1117ft)
NYK Helios (1199ft)
USS Carl Vinson [CVN 70] (1092ft)
Q-Flex LNG Tanker (1033ft)
Valemax (1185ft)

Total: 141 new ships since last update

File updated.
Version 3.8.7 (4.30.2015)
~43 new ships
~Ships updated (up to April 24, 2015 update)

File updated.
Version 3.8.8 (5.23.2015)
~80 new ships

Biggest Ship Collection.kmz (785 B)


I cruised with this ship -the 665 feet "Celebration of the Bahamas" from Palm Beach  Florida to Bahamas

Speaking of cruise ships, I've added quite a lot recently.  Went through all the cruise ports of the world and identified all the cruise ship finds I could. Two super useful websites I used: www.whatsinport.com/ has a map of exactly where the cruise terminal is within a location and ports.cruisett.com/ lists what ships went to what port when. 

195 new ships
8/17/2015

New update (Sept. 7th).

46 new ships
including:

USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) docked in Bahrain
Norwegian Epic and Norwegian Getaway
Carnival Vista - Carnival Cruises' newest ship
Quantum of the Seas
Disney Dream

New update today. Been a few months

271 new ships

New update.

Version 4.1 (7.23.2016)
•354 new ships
•New category: Crane Vessel
•Reduced future update schedule (next update: December)

New update

Version 4.2 (12.1.2016)
•292 new ships, including
  • Pioneering Spirit (1565ft - world's largest construction vessel)
  • Harmony of the Seas (1188ft - world's largest cruise ship)
  • USS Saratoga, USS Ranger, and USS Constellation being scrapped
  • Project Edge 1 - Celebrity Cruises' newest cruise-ship
•Added metric units


Next (planned) update: April 2017

Week early on the new update
(3/25/2017)
322 new ships
Next update this summer

Version 4.4 (8.12.2017)
•260 new ships (incl. 8 aircraft carriers, 14 cruise ships, and a whole bunch of identifiable ships)
•Next update: Sometime in 2018

Due to personal reasons, I will no longer be updating this file. It's been a fun 10 years! If anyone wants to take over, go for it! JK.

Final update today, February 3, 2018
Added 285 ships.

You've put a lot into this outstanding collection over the years, mate, and I hope that your personal circumstances will one day allow you to to take it up again yourself. 

All the best to you and yours.

So long, old friend.

thank you all the big ships through the years old fellow! 

this collection let here, will also give pleasure for many forthcoming visitors and anyone in future who interested.

all the best! see you!
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Thanks for your kind words syzygy and frankmcvey!!

Perhaps I was rash; I miss my hobby of finding these ships already xD
I'll try to stick to my schedule of 2-3 updates a year, but wanted to push this update out first.

Version 5.0 (4.2.2018)
-Divided ships into Navy Ships or Civilian Ships
-Navy Ships category now includes anything above 656ft/200m, sorted by type
    -Aircraft Carrier, Amphibious Assault Ship/Transport Dock, Helicopter Carrier/Deck, Hospital Ship, Strategic Sealift Ship, Surface Combatant, and Tracking Ship
-422 new ships (203 Navy/219 Civilian)

Sticking with the tri-annual update schedule:

Version 5.1 (7.30.2018)
• +379 new ships (18 navy, 361 civilian)

Next Update: Dec '18 / Jan '19

Version 6.0 (12.1.2018)
• +278 new ships total
   • +44 Bulk Carriers
   • +157 Container Ships
   • +35 Cruise Ship/Liners
   • +2 FPSO
   • +2 Lake Freighters
   • +15 LNG/LPG Carriers
   • +1 RoRo/ConRo
   • +1 Shipbreaking
   • +22 Tankers
• Collection split into civilian and military versions (to improve update time)<br>
• Cruise ships sorted by ship class<br>

Version 1.2 (12.4.2018)
• +41 new ships total
• Collection split into civilian and military versions<br>
• Added "Command Ship" and "U.S. Merchant Marine Ship" categories

Working on an update, should have something by the end of June.

Had some spare time - finished the update:

Civilian GEBSC Updated
Version 6.1 (5.15.2019)
356 new ships

File updated. Last update of this year, next update probably early next year.

Version 6.2 (8.1.2019)
• Civilian/Military collections combined back into one version, minimum size 950ft (to improve update time/my willpower to update)
• 136 new ships
   • 1 Aircraft Carrier
   • 20 Bulk Carriers
   • 47 Container Ships
   • 6 Cruise Ships
   • 2 FPSO
   • 19 LNG/LPG Carriers
   • 1 RoRo/ConRo
   • 19 Tankers

Happy Holidays. One last update before the new year!

Version 6.3 (12.27.2019)
• 199 new ships
• 12 Aircraft Carrier
• 46 Bulk Carriers
• 68 Container Ships
• 14 Cruise Ships
• 1 FLNG
• 7 FPSO
• 11 LNG/LPG Carriers
• 40 Tankers

Hope everyone is staying safe and healthy during this pandemic! I've certainly acquired a lot of free time during this...so here's an update. Not much in the way of imagery updates, but I cleaned up the historical imagery and kept only specifically id-ed ships, and identified a whole bunch of container ship classes.

Version 6.4 (4.8.2020)
• 123 new ships
• +49 Bulk Carriers
• +56 Container Ships
• +4 Cruise Ships
• +3 FPSO
• +1 LNG/LPG Carriers
• +1 RoRo
• +1 Shipbreaking
• +8 Tankers

7 months into this pandemic - still hope everyone is doing well! Lots of imagery updates, including a bunch of cruise ships being quarantined, but also two organizational changes: container ships are now sorted by ship classes and cruise ships by cruise company. Also, I can't believe that after 12 years of updating this collection that I never had imagery dates included before! I've added them now, which'll make updating and viewing much easier (in case of new imagery). This collection is now officially older than the students I teach: I feel old! This'll be my last update (for this collection) for awhile; next update probably in late Spring or Summer 2021. See y'all then!

Version 7.0 (11.16.2020)
• 375 new ships
• +4 Aircraft Carriers
• +84 Bulk Carriers
• +174 Container Ships
• +27 Cruise Ships
• +7 FPSO
• +37 LNG/LPG Carriers
• +1 Pipelayer
• +1 RoRo
• +1 Shipbreaking
• +39 Tankers

Okay a bit of a retcon from before - I'm only adding dates to finds that I plan to keep - which is any named ship. Update a little earlier than anticipated, as I had some free time. Next update probably in late Fall or early Winter 2021. See y'all then!

Version 7.1 (4.13.2021)
• 298 new ships
• +1 Aircraft Carrier
• +53 Bulk Carriers
• +106 Container Ships
• +29 Cruise Ships
• +8 FPSO
• +27 LNG/LPG Carriers
• +1 Pipelayer
• +3 RoRo
• +7 Shipbreaking
• +63 Tankers

Life's gotten a bit busier for me as I've grown older, so I'm changing the update schedule for this collection to once a year (Late Summer/Early Fall). Next update will be ~September 2022: see you then!

Version 7.2 (9.6.2021)
• 154 new ships
• +30 Bulk Carriers
• +89 Container Ships
• +7 Cruise Ships
• +3 Lake Freighters
• +13 LNG/LPG Carriers
• +12 Tankers

After a little over a year - here's a new release! A couple major changes this time around, with a focus on speeding up updates in the future.
• The entire collection is converted to (only) metric units)
• Minimum ship length changed from 950ft (~290m) to 300m. This sadly removes the entire categories of RoRo (Roll-on/Roll-off), Strategic Sealift Ships, and Crane Vessels. I'll probably release collections of these separately in the future.
• Historical imagery is no longer in subfolders but within it's own main folder.
• Container ships are no longer split up by classes, as there's too many similar classes and it takes forever to categorize them all
• Ships are no longer separated by 100ft subcategories, instead all ships of the same type (e.g. tanker) are lumped into one folder

Version 8.0 (9.26.2022)
• 262 new ships
• +7 Aircraft Carriers
• +25 Bulk Carriers
• +158 Container Ships
• +27 Cruise Ships
• +8 FPSO
• +2 Lake Freighters
• +2 LNG/LPG Carriers
• +33 Tankers

Edit: literally an hour after I release this, Long Beach CA gets new imagery. 19 new container ships there! Updated.

Thanks Neil for sharing your find! Added Neil's CV-75 find in Oman!