Palanga

At 13,180 gross tons, Palanga is the 32,322nd 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 2.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,411 fishing vessels held here, it ranks 11th by tonnage — larger than 100% of that group. Their median tonnage is 738 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 2,773 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Russia (797 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Kuznia na Rybalskomu, with 175 hulls on record.

Lithuania is the country of registry for 87 vessels in this directory, of which Palanga is the 10th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (59 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,393 GT. Browse every ship flagged Lithuania.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 7 fishing vessels flying the Lithuania flag, of which none is larger than Palanga.

Palanga 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 309th 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 164.0 m overall, Palanga is 110.0 m longer than the 54.0 m median for fishing vessels on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7041390 this registry holds 47 other vessels, whose median build year is 1971 and which range from 1959 to 1971. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.