M Sophia

At 161,789 gross tons, M Sophia is the 598th 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 27 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 58th by tonnage — larger than 98% of that group. Their median tonnage is 22,184 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 149,274 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (301 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 190 hulls on record.

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 332.0 m overall, M Sophia is 153.0 m longer than the 179.0 m median for oil tankers on record, with a beam of 58.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9289477 this registry holds 58 other vessels, whose median build year is 2005 and which range from 2003 to 2006. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series; no build year is recorded for this vessel itself.

Its IMO number, 9289477, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 8×5 + 9×4 + 4×3 + 7×2 = 177 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.