Black Egret

At 633 gross tons, Black Egret is the 71,262nd 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 9.5 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 39,972nd by tonnage — larger than 20% 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.

South Africa is the country of registry for 141 vessels in this directory, of which Black Egret is the 60th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (116 ships), and the median vessel measures 646 GT. Browse every ship flagged South Africa.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 116 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the South Africa flag, of which 42 are larger by tonnage.

Black Egret was built in 2002, making it 24 years old. It is one of 1,298 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,563 GT; within it this ship is the 1,093rd 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 58.5 m overall, Black Egret is 56.5 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8977467 this registry holds 14 other vessels, whose median build year is 1988 and which range from 1961 to 2003. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2002.