Flying Sandpiper

At 128 gross tons, Flying Sandpiper is the 82,924th 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 47 times smaller than 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 48,874th by tonnage — larger than 2% 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 Flying Sandpiper is the 2,334th 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 1,457 are larger by tonnage.

Flying Sandpiper was built in 1972, making it 54 years old. It is one of 1,928 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,016 GT; within it this ship is the 1,689th 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 28.0 m overall, Flying Sandpiper is 87.0 m shorter 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 7236206 this registry holds 65 other vessels, whose median build year is 1972 and which range from 1972 to 1974. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1972.