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Largest in this registry
#8,808
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#4,869
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#1
of 3 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
Moscow University (Russian: Московский университет, romanized: Moskovskiy Universitet) is a 56,076 GT tanker, which was ordered in 1997. The ship is notable for being captured by Somali pirates on 5 May 2010 and rescued the following day by a Russian Navy warship.
Vessel particulars
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
Construction
Measurements
In context
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 56,076 gross tons, MV Moscow University is the 8,808th 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 9.4 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 4,869th by tonnage — larger than 90% 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.
Liberia is the country of registry for 4,741 vessels in this directory, of which MV Moscow University is the 1,196th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,739 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,983 GT. Browse every ship flagged Liberia.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 2,739 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Liberia flag, of which 696 are larger by tonnage.
MV Moscow University was built in 1999, making it 27 years old. It is one of 1,252 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,594 GT; within it this ship is the 153rd largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 5 vessels to JFE Holdings, with a median tonnage of 14,036 GT, delivered between 1973 and 1999. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 243.5 m overall, MV Moscow University is 128.5 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 42.0 m and a draft of 14.8 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9166417 this registry holds 60 other vessels, whose median build year is 1998 and which range from 1996 to 2001. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1999.
Its IMO number, 9166417, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 6×5 + 6×4 + 4×3 + 1×2 = 137 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among vessels this registry holds no type classification for
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Sagar1 | 2005 | 56,146 |
| Amba Bhakti | 1997 | 56,127 |
| BW Pioneer | 1992 | 56,091 |
| MV Moscow University (this ship) | 1999 | 56,076 |
| Sea Jewel | 1980 | 56,027 |
| Fly Eagle | 1992 | 56,020 |
| Remi |
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from MV Moscow University on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy AlfvanBeem, reused under CC0.
| 1991 |
| 55,946 |