Lykes Hero

At 41,023 gross tons, Lykes Hero is the 13,199th 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 6.8 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 7,393rd by tonnage — larger than 85% 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.

Saint Kitts and Nevis is the country of registry for 545 vessels in this directory, of which Lykes Hero is the 55th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (324 ships), and the median vessel measures 10,964 GT. Browse every ship flagged Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 324 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Saint Kitts and Nevis flag, of which 21 are larger by tonnage.

Lykes Hero was built in 1986, making it 40 years old. It is one of 866 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,769 GT; within it this ship is the 72nd 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 597 vessels to Tsuneishi Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 38,530 GT, delivered between 1968 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 242.7 m overall, Lykes Hero is 127.7 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 8609254 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.