Oil Link

At 783 gross tons, Oil Link is the 68,240th 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 7.7 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 38,408th by tonnage — larger than 23% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

Honduras is the country of registry for 238 vessels in this directory, of which Oil Link is the 117th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (191 ships), and the median vessel measures 885 GT. Browse every ship flagged Honduras.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 191 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Honduras flag, of which 86 are larger by tonnage.

Oil Link was built in 1975, making it 51 years old. It is one of 1,913 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,929 GT; within it this ship is the 1,239th 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.

At 63.0 m overall, Oil Link is 52.0 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7506053 this registry holds 41 other vessels, whose median build year is 1976 and which range from 1975 to 1987. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1975.

Its IMO number, , carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 113 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.