Four Astra

At 32,605 gross tons, Four Astra is the 17,802nd 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 5.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 1,177th by tonnage — larger than 60% 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.

Italy is the country of registry for 918 vessels in this directory, of which Four Astra is the 193rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (488 ships), and the median vessel measures 4,975 GT. Browse every ship flagged Italy.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 13 oil tankers flying the Italy flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.

Four Astra was built in 1983, making it 43 years old. It is one of 1,578 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,112 GT; within it this ship is the 123rd 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 37 vessels to Uddevalla shipyard, with a median tonnage of 32,861 GT, delivered between 1954 and 1985. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 206.0 m overall, Four Astra is 27.0 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 8030415 this registry holds 53 other vessels, whose median build year is 1982 and which range from 1980 to 1984. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.