Largest in this registry
#76,853
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#43,922
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
- 8623195
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- Call sign
- JXNR
- Flag state
- Norway
- Port of registry
- —
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
- Name recorded in
- nb
Construction
In context
How MF «Tau» 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 351 gross tons, MF «Tau» is the 76,853rd 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 17 times smaller than 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 43,922nd by tonnage — larger than 12% 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.
Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which MF «Tau» is the 2,199th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,126 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,102 GT. Browse every ship flagged Norway.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 2,126 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Norway flag, of which 1,444 are larger by tonnage.
MF «Tau» was built in 1961, making it 65 years old. It is one of 231 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 844 GT; within it this ship is the 75th largest. Across the whole of the 1960s the registry holds 4,074 vessels, median 844 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 14 vessels to Brødrene Lothe, with a median tonnage of 351 GT, delivered between 1957 and 1982. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 45.5 m overall, MF «Tau» is 69.5 m shorter 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 8623195 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at Brødrene Lothe
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
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