Empress Des Mers

At 203,110 gross tons, Empress Des Mers is the 152nd 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 34 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 49th by tonnage — larger than 100% 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.

The Bahamas is the country of registry for 1,614 vessels in this directory, of which Empress Des Mers is the 12th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (940 ships), and the median vessel measures 30,020 GT. Browse every ship flagged The Bahamas.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 940 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the The Bahamas flag, of which none is larger than Empress Des Mers.

Empress Des Mers was built in 1976, making it 50 years old. It is one of 1,812 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,484 GT; within it this ship is the 5th largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 381.0 m overall, Empress Des Mers is 266.0 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 7379929 this registry holds 80 other vessels, whose median build year is 1974 and which range from 1973 to 1977. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1976.