Nostos

At 52,159 gross tons, Nostos is the 9,408th 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 8.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 989th by tonnage — larger than 67% 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.

Liberia is the country of registry for 4,741 vessels in this directory, of which Nostos is the 1,293rd 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 246 oil tankers flying the Liberia flag, of which 148 are larger by tonnage.

Nostos was built in 1989, making it 37 years old. It is one of 1,131 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,938 GT; within it this ship is the 51st largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 161 vessels to Sumitomo Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 51,956 GT, delivered between 1959 and 2022. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 232.0 m overall, Nostos is 53.0 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 8716746 this registry holds 43 other vessels, whose median build year is 1988 and which range from 1987 to 1991. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.