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Largest in this registry
#1,492
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest tanker
#36
of 2,270 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
—
No operator attributed to this ship
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
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 149,407 gross tons, Northern S is the 1,492nd 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 25 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 2,402 tankers held here, it ranks 36th by tonnage — larger than 98% of that group. Their median tonnage is 8,256 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 42,340 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (219 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 175 hulls on record.
Palau is the country of registry for 364 vessels in this directory, of which Northern S is the 13th 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 24 tankers flying the Palau flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.
Northern S 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 23rd 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 240 vessels to IHI Marine United, with a median tonnage of 52,902 GT, delivered between 1963 and 2013. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 330.0 m overall, Northern S is 191.0 m longer than the 139.0 m median for tankers on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9183350 this registry holds 67 other vessels, whose median build year is 1999 and which range from 1991 to 2001. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Record
Events recorded against this vessel in the source, with the dates the source gives. An event with no date is listed last rather than assigned one.
Same yard, same years
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
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryNo English Wikipedia article is linked to this vessel, so no summary is shown.
PhotographNo freely licensed photograph of this vessel is held, so none is shown.
Measurements
Its IMO number, 9183350, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 8×5 + 3×4 + 3×3 + 5×2 = 140 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among tankers
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Ailsa Craig I | — | 150,704 |
| National | 1993 | 150,167 |
| Titan Ruchira | 1991 | 149,945 |
| Northern S (this ship) | 1999 | 149,407 |
| Fortune Star | 1999 | 149,376 |
| Massongo | 1995 | 146,745 |
| Mera | 1987 | 145,600 |
Alisha
2000 · 149,282 GT · Panama