Nosac Branco

At 13,826 gross tons, Nosac Branco is the 31,818th 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 2.3 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 392nd by tonnage — larger than 16% of that group. Their median tonnage is 49,792 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 68,871 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (132 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Shin Kurushima Dockyard, with 41 hulls on record.

Liberia is the country of registry for 4,741 vessels in this directory, of which Nosac Branco is the 3,803rd 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 29 car carriers flying the Liberia flag, of which 23 are larger by tonnage.

Nosac Branco was built in 1971, making it 55 years old. It is one of 1,927 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,462 GT; within it this ship is the 302nd largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 175 vessels to Gdańsk Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 9,899 GT, delivered between 1930 and 2014. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 190.0 m overall, Nosac Branco is 3.9 m shorter than the 193.9 m median for car carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7039646 this registry holds 65 other vessels, whose median build year is 1959 and which range from 1958 to 1971. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.