Catherine Knutsen

At 77,389 gross tons, Catherine Knutsen is the 6,013th 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 13 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,402 tankers held here, it ranks 118th by tonnage — larger than 95% of that group. Their median tonnage is 8,256 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 42,340 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (219 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 175 hulls on record.

Palau is the country of registry for 364 vessels in this directory, of which Catherine Knutsen is the 30th 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 24 tankers flying the Palau flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.

Catherine Knutsen was built in 1992, making it 34 years old. It is one of 1,130 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,228 GT; within it this ship is the 60th 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 117 vessels to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery, with a median tonnage of 61,321 GT, delivered between 1955 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 274.3 m overall, Catherine Knutsen is 135.3 m longer than the 139.0 m median for tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8714994 this registry holds 60 other vessels, whose median build year is 1989 and which range from 1987 to 1993. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1992.

Its IMO number, 8714994, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 7×6 + 1×5 + 4×4 + 9×3 + 9×2 = 164 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.