Forever Happy

At 24,953 gross tons, Forever Happy is the 23,113th 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 4.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 4,275th by tonnage — larger than 34% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.

Cook Islands is the country of registry for 193 vessels in this directory, of which Forever Happy is the 15th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (94 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,988 GT. Browse every ship flagged Cook Islands.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 19 bulk carriers flying the Cook Islands flag, of which 4 are larger by tonnage.

Forever Happy was built in 1997, making it 29 years old. It is one of 1,319 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,388 GT; within it this ship is the 358th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 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 181.0 m overall, Forever Happy is 9.0 m shorter than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9146613 this registry holds 62 other vessels, whose median build year is 1997. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.