Lady Melis

At 16,145 gross tons, Lady Melis is the 29,977th 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 2.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 5,648th by tonnage — larger than 13% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.

Comoros is the country of registry for 506 vessels in this directory, of which Lady Melis is the 176th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (295 ships), and the median vessel measures 8,205 GT. Browse every ship flagged Comoros.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 37 bulk carriers flying the Comoros flag, of which 23 are larger by tonnage.

Lady Melis was built in 1992, making it 34 years old. It is one of 1,130 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,228 GT; within it this ship is the 278th 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.

The registry attributes 120 vessels to Mangalia Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 44,133 GT, delivered between 1980 and 2017. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 171.0 m overall, Lady Melis is 19.0 m shorter than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9044920 this registry holds 44 other vessels, whose median build year is 1992 and which range from 1991 to 2014. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.