Glorious Sea

At 14,941 gross tons, Glorious Sea is the 30,970th 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 2.5 times 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 17,403rd by tonnage — larger than 65% 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.

Barbados is the country of registry for 215 vessels in this directory, of which Glorious Sea is the 55th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (85 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,937 GT. Browse every ship flagged Barbados.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 85 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Barbados flag, of which 33 are larger by tonnage.

Glorious Sea was built in 2006, making it 20 years old. It is one of 2,118 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,539 GT; within it this ship is the 869th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 158.0 m overall, Glorious Sea is 43.0 m longer 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 9370977 this registry holds 68 other vessels, whose median build year is 2007 and which range from 2005 to 2010. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2006.

Its IMO number, , carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 157 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.