Bittern

At 1,899 gross tons, Bittern is the 58,700th 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 3.2 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 33,278th by tonnage — larger than 33% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

Ireland is the country of registry for 121 vessels in this directory, of which Bittern is the 41st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (75 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,264 GT. Browse every ship flagged Ireland.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 75 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Ireland flag, of which 18 are larger by tonnage.

Bittern was built in 1920, making it 106 years old. It is one of 58 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,194 GT; within it this ship is the 21st largest. Across the whole of the 1920s the registry holds 516 vessels, median 2,350 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 124 vessels to Swan Hunter, with a median tonnage of 6,944 GT, delivered between 1903 and 2006. See the rest of that yard’s output.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 1143483 this registry holds 39 other vessels, whose median build year is 1919 and which range from 1904 to 1922. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.