Mercur

At 22,772 gross tons, Mercur is the 24,858th 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 3.8 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 604 chemical / products tankers held here, it ranks 99th by tonnage — larger than 83% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,979 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 25,682 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (80 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 35 hulls on record.

The Bahamas is the country of registry for 1,614 vessels in this directory, of which Mercur is the 970th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (940 ships), and the median vessel measures 30,020 GT. Browse every ship flagged The Bahamas.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 7 chemical / products tankers flying the The Bahamas flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.

Mercur was built in 1982, making it 44 years old. It is one of 1,706 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,592 GT; within it this ship is the 243rd 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 88 vessels to Bergen Mekaniske Verksted, with a median tonnage of 3,441 GT, delivered between 1867 and 2010. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 175.0 m overall, Mercur is 55.9 m longer than the 119.1 m median for chemical / products tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8000915 this registry holds 50 other vessels, whose median build year is 1981. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.