At 93,899 gross tons, Methane Princess is the 3,838th 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 16 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 270 lng carriers held here, it ranks 183rd by tonnage — larger than 27% of that group. Their median tonnage is 105,826 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 128,416 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Marshall Islands (37 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Samsung Heavy Industries, with 39 hulls on record.
Marshall Islands is the country of registry for 3,838 vessels in this directory, of which Methane Princess is the 359th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,407 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,987 GT. Browse every ship flagged Marshall Islands.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 37 lng carriers flying the Marshall Islands flag, of which 32 are larger by tonnage.
Methane Princess was built in 2003, making it 23 years old. It is one of 1,383 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,954 GT; within it this ship is the 46th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 12 vessels to Vickers, with a median tonnage of 21,207 GT, delivered between 1922 and 2003. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 189.0 m overall, Methane Princess is 99.0 m shorter than the 288.0 m median for lng carriers on record, with a beam of 25.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9253715 this registry holds 62 other vessels, whose median build year is 2002 and which range from 2001 to 2004. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2003.
Its IMO number, 9253715, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 5×5 + 3×4 + 7×3 + 1×2 = 135 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.
