Blue Bead

At 18,459 gross tons, Blue Bead is the 27,673rd 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 3.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 263rd by tonnage — larger than 95% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,963 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 10,970 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (565 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Cestné a Stavebné Mechanizmy Tisovec, with 137 hulls on record.

Palau is the country of registry for 364 vessels in this directory, of which Blue Bead is the 114th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (144 ships), and the median vessel measures 8,686 GT. Browse every ship flagged Palau.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 55 general cargos flying the Palau flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.

Blue Bead was built in 1998, making it 28 years old. It is one of 1,367 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,381 GT; within it this ship is the 428th 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 740 vessels to Shin Kurushima Dockyard, with a median tonnage of 16,762 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 170.0 m overall, Blue Bead is 69.0 m longer than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9171113 this registry holds 57 other vessels, whose median build year is 1999. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.