Hope

At 77,704 gross tons, Hope is the 5,985th 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 13 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,402 tankers held here, it ranks 115th by tonnage — larger than 95% of that group. Their median tonnage is 8,256 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 42,340 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (219 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 175 hulls on record.

Tuvalu is the country of registry for 239 vessels in this directory, of which Hope is the 7th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (115 ships), and the median vessel measures 8,517 GT. Browse every ship flagged Tuvalu.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 12 tankers flying the Tuvalu flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.

Hope was built in 1982, making it 44 years old. It is one of 1,706 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,592 GT; within it this ship is the 13th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 1,090 vessels to Hanwha Ocean, with a median tonnage of 84,214 GT, delivered between 1982 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 265.0 m overall, Hope is 126.0 m longer than the 139.0 m median for tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8028096 this registry holds 60 other vessels, whose median build year is 1982 and which range from 1980 to 1983. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.