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Bulk carrier
Operated by China Ocean Shipping Co., Ltd.
Photo: Anders Brenna / Teknisk Ukeblad · CC BY 3.0 no · file
Largest in this registry
#30,265
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest bulk carrier
#5,703
of 6,489 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#4
of 5 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
Full City is a Panama-flagged bulk carrier made infamous by running aground after an engine failure during a storm at the island of Saastein (Såstein) outside Langesund, Telemark, Norway, spilling 700 tons of heavy bunker fuel oil in a sensitive wildlife refuge area on 31 July 2009. Full City was built by Hakodate Dockyard Co. Ltd. in Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1995.
The vessel was pulled off the rocks and first towed to Stathelle, and later to Gothenburg
for full drydock repairs.
On 5 May 2011, as part of NATO's counter-piracy Operation Ocean Shield, the carrier USS Carl Vinson, the cruiser USS Bunker Hill, and the Turkish frigate Giresun responded to a distress call from Full City. An Indian Navy Tu-142 maritime patrol aircraft located Full City, and while Giresun boarded the merchant vessel, Bunker Hill intercepted a dhow believed to be the 'mothership' for the pirate attack. Bunker Hill's VBSS boarding party seized weapons and other equipment commonly used in piracy, and the boarding party also sank a small skiff being towed by the dhow. Giresun's boarding party found Full City's Chinese crew safe and in control of their ship.
Vessel particulars
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
Construction
Measurements
In context
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 15,873 gross tons, Full City is the 30,265th 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 2.6 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 5,703rd by tonnage — larger than 12% 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.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is the country of registry for 561 vessels in this directory, of which Full City is the 70th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (233 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,406 GT. Browse every ship flagged Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 34 bulk carriers flying the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines flag, of which 24 are larger by tonnage.
Full City was built in 1995, making it 31 years old. It is one of 1,092 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,255 GT; within it this ship is the 406th 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 180 vessels to Hakodate Dock, with a median tonnage of 19,796 GT, delivered between 1964 and 2023. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 167.2 m overall, Full City is 22.8 m shorter than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record, with a beam of 26.0 m and a draft of 9.4 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9073672 this registry holds 56 other vessels, whose median build year is 1994 and which range from 1992 to 1995. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1995.
Its IMO number, 9073672, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 0×6 + 7×5 + 3×4 + 6×3 + 7×2 = 142 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among bulk carriers
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| C Ballad | 1992 | 15,884 |
| Zeinab | 1994 | 15,880 |
| «White Shark» | 1993 | 15,880 |
| Full City (this ship) | 1995 | 15,873 |
| Grumant | 2006 | 15,868 |
| Severnaya Zemlya | 2009 | 15,868 |
| «Zapolyarye» |
Record
Events recorded against this vessel in the source, with the dates the source gives. An event with no date is listed last rather than assigned one.
Same yard, same years
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.
Germ Spring
1994 · 25,457 GT · Panama
Guo Dian 10
1995 · 25,457 GT · People's Republic of China
Ocean Wit
1996 · 17,542 GT · Panama
Oriental Grace
1996 · 17,099 GT · Liberia
Zeinab
1994 · 15,880 GT · Tuvalu
Lady Hind
1995 · 15,757 GT · Palau
Vinaship Pearl
1996 · 14,602 GT · Vietnam
Allegra
1995 · 14,599 GT · Liberia
Same fleet
Provenance
| 2008 |
| 15,868 |