Australis

At 156,914 gross tons, Australis is the 1,069th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 26 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 224th by tonnage — larger than 92% of that group. Their median tonnage is 22,184 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 149,274 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (301 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 190 hulls on record.

Malta is the country of registry for 2,640 vessels in this directory, of which Australis is the 43rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,614 ships), and the median vessel measures 23,204 GT. Browse every ship flagged Malta.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 68 oil tankers flying the Malta flag, of which 5 are larger by tonnage.

Australis was built in 2003, making it 23 years old. It is one of 1,383 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,954 GT; within it this ship is the 31st largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 329.0 m overall, Australis is 150.0 m longer than the 179.0 m median for oil tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9284946 this registry holds 73 other vessels, whose median build year is 2004 and which range from 2003 to 2007. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2003.

Its IMO number, 9284946, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 = 166 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.