Flying Phantom

At 287 gross tons, Flying Phantom is the 78,514th 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 21 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,471 tugs held here, it ranks 800th by tonnage — larger than 37% of that group. Their median tonnage is 393 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 1,733 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (239 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Damen Shipyards Gorinchem, with 62 hulls on record.

United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which Flying Phantom is the 1,733rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 62 tugs flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 26 are larger by tonnage.

Flying Phantom was built in 1981, making it 45 years old. It is one of 1,653 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,186 GT; within it this ship is the 1,274th 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 61 vessels to Ferguson Marine, with a median tonnage of 2,181 GT, delivered between 1939 and 2016. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 38.0 m overall, Flying Phantom is 5.6 m longer than the 32.3 m median for tugs on record, with a beam of 9.7 m and a draft of 3.8 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8011770 this registry holds 54 other vessels, whose median build year is 1981 and which range from 1980 to 1984. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1981.

Its IMO number, 8011770, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 0×6 + 1×5 + 1×4 + 7×3 + 7×2 = 100 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.