Dover

At 14,070 gross tons, Dover is the 31,644th 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 2.3 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 416th by tonnage — larger than 92% 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.

Greece is the country of registry for 1,164 vessels in this directory, of which Dover is the 621st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (835 ships), and the median vessel measures 29,858 GT. Browse every ship flagged Greece.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 31 general cargos flying the Greece flag, of which none is larger than Dover.

Dover 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 435th 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 240 vessels to IHI Marine United, with a median tonnage of 52,902 GT, delivered between 1963 and 2013. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 164.0 m overall, Dover is 63.0 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 8018065 this registry holds 59 other vessels, whose median build year is 1981 and which range from 1980 to 1985. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.