Hiryu

At 137,025 gross tons, Hiryu is the 1,815th 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 23 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 318th by tonnage — larger than 89% 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.

Saint Kitts and Nevis is the country of registry for 545 vessels in this directory, of which Hiryu is the 9th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (324 ships), and the median vessel measures 10,964 GT. Browse every ship flagged Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 37 oil tankers flying the Saint Kitts and Nevis flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.

Hiryu 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 20th 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.

At 324.0 m overall, Hiryu is 145.0 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 8920763 this registry holds 44 other vessels, whose median build year is 1991 and which range from 1989 to 1996. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1991.

Its IMO number, 8920763, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 153 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.