Pelican

At 56,127 gross tons, Pelican is the 8,800th 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 9.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 892nd by tonnage — larger than 70% 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.

Cameroon is the country of registry for 80 vessels in this directory, of which Pelican is the 13th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (35 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,550 GT. Browse every ship flagged Cameroon.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 16 oil tankers flying the Cameroon flag, of which 9 are larger by tonnage.

Pelican was built in 1997, making it 29 years old. It is one of 1,319 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,388 GT; within it this ship is the 112th 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 181 vessels to NKK, with a median tonnage of 56,076 GT, delivered between 1958 and 2003. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 243.0 m overall, Pelican is 64.0 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 9144782 this registry holds 65 other vessels, whose median build year is 1997 and which range from 1996 to 2004. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.