Despina

At 15,137 gross tons, Despina is the 30,834th 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 2.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 395th by tonnage — larger than 93% 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.

Malta is the country of registry for 2,640 vessels in this directory, of which Despina is the 1,615th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,614 ships), and the median vessel measures 23,204 GT. Browse every ship flagged Malta.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 82 general cargos flying the Malta flag, of which 14 are larger by tonnage.

Despina was built in 1982, making it 44 years old. It is one of 1,706 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,592 GT; within it this ship is the 402nd largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 227 vessels to Stocznia Gdynia, with a median tonnage of 23,817 GT, delivered between 1961 and 2009. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 156.0 m overall, Despina is 55.0 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 8030881 this registry holds 76 other vessels, whose median build year is 1980 and which range from 1980 to 1989. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.