At 9,405 gross tons, «Oceanic Champion» is the 36,930th 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 1.6 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 612 research / surveys held here, it ranks 51st by tonnage — larger than 90% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,180 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 9,452 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (90 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Wärtsilä, with 36 hulls on record.
Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which «Oceanic Champion» is the 744th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,126 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,102 GT. Browse every ship flagged Norway.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 29 research / surveys flying the Norway flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.
«Oceanic Champion» was built in 1995, making it 31 years old. It is one of 1,092 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,255 GT; within it this ship is the 491st 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 27 vessels to Hellesøy Verft, with a median tonnage of 2,484 GT, delivered between 1975 and 2014. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 106.9 m overall, «Oceanic Champion» is 35.9 m longer than the 71.0 m median for research / surveys on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9085211 this registry holds 57 other vessels, whose median build year is 1994 and which range from 1993 to 1999. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1995.
Its IMO number, 9085211, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 0×6 + 8×5 + 5×4 + 2×3 + 1×2 = 131 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.
