Palanca

At 139,245 gross tons, Palanca is the 1,760th 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 23 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,402 tankers held here, it ranks 44th 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.

Angola is the country of registry for 42 vessels in this directory, of which Palanca is the 2nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (34 ships), and the median vessel measures 616 GT. Browse every ship flagged Angola.

Palanca was built in 1991, making it 35 years old. It is one of 1,166 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,997 GT; within it this ship is the 18th 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.

At 278.0 m overall, Palanca is 139.0 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 8919128 this registry holds 65 other vessels, whose median build year is 1991 and which range from 1989 to 2000. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1991.

Its IMO number, 8919128, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 9×6 + 1×5 + 9×4 + 1×3 + 2×2 = 158 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.