Largest in this registry
#54,134
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#30,743
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
—
No operator attributed to this ship
Vessel particulars
Identification and dimensions
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
- IMO number
- 8912364
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- Call sign
- 3EBY6
- Flag state
- United Kingdom
- Port of registry
- —
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Unclassified
In context
How FS Taurus compares
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 2,610 gross tons, FS Taurus is the 54,134th 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 2.3 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 30,743rd by tonnage — larger than 38% 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.
United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which FS Taurus is the 1,006th 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 1,835 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 724 are larger by tonnage.
FS Taurus was built in 1991, making it 35 years old. It is one of 1,166 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,997 GT; within it this ship is the 616th 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 74 vessels to Vard Brattvaag, with a median tonnage of 3,104 GT, delivered between 1966 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 81.9 m overall, FS Taurus is 33.1 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 8912364 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at Vard Brattvaag
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Provenance
Where this page comes from
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryNo English Wikipedia article is linked to this vessel, so no summary is shown.
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