Desh Vibhor

At 165,319 gross tons, Desh Vibhor is the 410th 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 28 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 13th by tonnage — larger than 100% of that group. Their median tonnage is 22,184 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 149,274 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (301 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 190 hulls on record.

India is the country of registry for 968 vessels in this directory, of which Desh Vibhor is the 1st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (514 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,306 GT. Browse every ship flagged India.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 59 oil tankers flying the India flag, of which none is larger than Desh Vibhor.

Desh Vibhor was built in 2015, making it 11 years old. It is one of 1,804 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,303 GT; within it this ship is the 34th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 332.0 m overall, Desh Vibhor is 153.0 m longer than the 179.0 m median for oil tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9610298 this registry holds 70 other vessels, whose median build year is 2012 and which range from 2010 to 2015. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2015.

Its IMO number, 9610298, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 = 128 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.