Largest in this registry
#38,998
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#22,304
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
—
No operator attributed to this ship
Vessel particulars
Identification and dimensions
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
- IMO number
- 8124515
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- Call sign
- VRYH3
- Flag state
- Hong Kong
- Port of registry
- —
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Unclassified
In context
How LPG Chief compares
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 7,791 gross tons, LPG Chief is the 38,998th 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 1.3 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 22,304th by tonnage — larger than 55% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.
Hong Kong is the country of registry for 2,385 vessels in this directory, of which LPG Chief is the 2,069th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,478 ships), and the median vessel measures 33,042 GT. Browse every ship flagged Hong Kong.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,478 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Hong Kong flag, of which 1,272 are larger by tonnage.
LPG Chief was built in 1983, making it 43 years old. It is one of 1,578 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,112 GT; within it this ship is the 524th 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 97 vessels to Schichau Seebeckwerft, with a median tonnage of 16,236 GT, delivered between 1909 and 2011. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 119.5 m overall, LPG Chief is 4.5 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8124515 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at Schichau Seebeckwerft
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Provenance
Where this page comes from
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryNo English Wikipedia article is linked to this vessel, so no summary is shown.
PhotographNo freely licensed photograph of this vessel is held, so none is shown.
