DHT Lion

At 154,180 gross tons, DHT Lion is the 1,228th 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 26 times 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 645th by tonnage — larger than 99% 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.

Hong Kong is the country of registry for 2,385 vessels in this directory, of which DHT Lion is the 158th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,478 ships), and the median vessel measures 33,042 GT. Browse every ship flagged Hong Kong.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,478 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Hong Kong flag, of which 111 are larger by tonnage.

DHT Lion was built in 2016, making it 10 years old. It is one of 1,628 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 26,388 GT; within it this ship is the 53rd 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 333.0 m overall, DHT Lion is 218.0 m longer 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 9722895 this registry holds 67 other vessels, whose median build year is 2016 and which range from 1995 to 2019. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2016.

Its IMO number, , carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 165 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.