At 3,693 gross tons, Key Fighter is the 49,077th 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 1.6 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 2,402 tankers held here, it ranks 1,575th by tonnage — larger than 31% 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.
Malta is the country of registry for 2,640 vessels in this directory, of which Key Fighter is the 2,215th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,614 ships), and the median vessel measures 23,204 GT. Browse every ship flagged Malta.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 138 tankers flying the Malta flag, of which 117 are larger by tonnage.
Key Fighter was built in 1989, making it 37 years old. It is one of 1,131 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,938 GT; within it this ship is the 422nd 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 21 vessels to Verolme Scheepswerf Heusden, with a median tonnage of 7,950 GT, delivered between 1972 and 1998. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 104.3 m overall, Key Fighter is 34.7 m shorter than the 139.0 m median for tankers on record, with a beam of 17.0 m and a draft of 6.2 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8712166 this registry holds 59 other vessels, whose median build year is 1988 and which range from 1987 to 2000. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1989.
Its IMO number, 8712166, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 7×6 + 1×5 + 2×4 + 1×3 + 6×2 = 126 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.
