At 305 gross tons, HMPNGS Ted Diro (P401) is the 77,837th 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 20 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 611 naval / patrols held here, it ranks 223rd by tonnage — larger than 16% of that group. Their median tonnage is 1,325 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 23,606 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (136 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Austal, with 33 hulls on record.
Papua New Guinea is the country of registry for 73 vessels in this directory, of which HMPNGS Ted Diro (P401) is the 56th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (40 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,113 GT. Browse every ship flagged Papua New Guinea.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 4 naval / patrols flying the Papua New Guinea flag, of which none is larger than HMPNGS Ted Diro (P401).
HMPNGS Ted Diro (P401) was built in 2018, making it 8 years old. It is one of 1,246 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 18,960 GT; within it this ship is the 1,174th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 122 vessels to Austal, with a median tonnage of 720 GT, delivered between 1993 and 2026. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 39.5 m overall, HMPNGS Ted Diro (P401) is 47.0 m shorter than the 86.5 m median for naval / patrols on record, with a beam of 8.0 m and a draft of 2.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 4734104 this registry holds 19 other vessels, whose median build year is 2021 and which range from 2018 to 2024. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2018.
Its IMO number, 4734104, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 4×7 + 7×6 + 3×5 + 4×4 + 1×3 + 0×2 = 104 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
