Nordic Aurora

At 80,668 gross tons, Nordic Aurora is the 5,780th 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 13 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 502nd by tonnage — larger than 83% 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.

Palau is the country of registry for 364 vessels in this directory, of which Nordic Aurora is the 26th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (144 ships), and the median vessel measures 8,686 GT. Browse every ship flagged Palau.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 64 oil tankers flying the Palau flag, of which 15 are larger by tonnage.

Nordic Aurora 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 71st 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.

At 274.0 m overall, Nordic Aurora is 95.0 m longer than the 179.0 m median for oil tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9159672 this registry holds 64 other vessels, whose median build year is 1997 and which range from 1996 to 2007. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1999.

Its IMO number, 9159672, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 162 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.