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LNG carrier

Betagas

IMO 9130468Call sign V2KA8Antigua and BarbudaBuilt 1997

Operated by Sloman Neptun Schiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft

Photo: HenSti · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file

Largest in this registry

#44,770

of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage

Largest lng carrier

#242

of 250 of this type with a recorded tonnage

Largest in its fleet

of 9 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage

Vessel particulars

Identification and dimensions

Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.

Identification

IMO number: 9130468
IMO check digit: Valid
MMSI
Call sign: V2KA8
Flag state: Antigua and Barbuda

In context

How Betagas compares

Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

At 4,924 gross tons, Betagas is the 44,770th 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 1.2 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 270 lng carriers held here, it ranks 242nd by tonnage — larger than 3% of that group. Their median tonnage is 105,826 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 128,416 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Marshall Islands (37 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Samsung Heavy Industries, with 39 hulls on record.

Antigua and Barbuda is the country of registry for 734 vessels in this directory, of which Betagas is the 419th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (372 ships), and the median vessel measures 6,351 GT. Browse every ship flagged Antigua and Barbuda.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 6 lng carriers flying the Antigua and Barbuda flag, of which 4 are larger by tonnage.

Betagas was built in 1997, making it 29 years old. It is one of 1,319 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,388 GT; within it this ship is the 753rd largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 59 vessels to Appledore Shipbuilders, with a median tonnage of 2,985 GT, delivered between 1956 and 2003. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 114.6 m overall, Betagas is 173.4 m shorter than the 288.0 m median for lng carriers on record and a draft of 6.3 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9130468 this registry holds 61 other vessels, whose median build year is 1997 and which range from 1995 to 1999. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1997.

Its IMO number, 9130468, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 3×5 + 0×4 + 4×3 + 6×2 = 108 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.