Pericles

At 56,225 gross tons, Pericles is the 8,769th 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 883rd 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.

Liberia is the country of registry for 4,741 vessels in this directory, of which Pericles is the 1,188th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,739 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,983 GT. Browse every ship flagged Liberia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 246 oil tankers flying the Liberia flag, of which 127 are larger by tonnage.

Pericles was built in 2003, making it 23 years old. It is one of 1,383 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,954 GT; within it this ship is the 231st largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 161 vessels to Sumitomo Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 51,956 GT, delivered between 1959 and 2022. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 239.0 m overall, Pericles is 60.0 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 9247986 this registry holds 64 other vessels, whose median build year is 2002 and which range from 2001 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.