Eternal Peace

At 84,855 gross tons, Eternal Peace is the 5,193rd 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 14 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 387th by tonnage — larger than 87% 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.

People's Republic of China is the country of registry for 3,427 vessels in this directory, of which Eternal Peace is the 48th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,851 ships), and the median vessel measures 10,532 GT. Browse every ship flagged People's Republic of China.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 164 oil tankers flying the People's Republic of China flag, of which 4 are larger by tonnage.

Eternal Peace was built in 2004, making it 22 years old. It is one of 1,485 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 17,188 GT; within it this ship is the 115th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 274.0 m overall, Eternal Peace is 95.0 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 9259745 this registry holds 80 other vessels, whose median build year is 2003 and which range from 2001 to 2014. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2004.

Its IMO number, 9259745, 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.