Pioneer

At 49,685 gross tons, Pioneer is the 10,048th 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 8.3 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 578 lpg carriers held here, it ranks 4th by tonnage — larger than 99% of that group. Their median tonnage is 3,901 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 44,690 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (100 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 40 hulls on record.

South Korea is the country of registry for 1,392 vessels in this directory, of which Pioneer is the 110th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (722 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,716 GT. Browse every ship flagged South Korea.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 31 lpg carriers flying the South Korea flag, of which none is larger than Pioneer.

Pioneer was built in 1983, making it 43 years old. It is one of 1,578 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,112 GT; within it this ship is the 28th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 220.0 m overall, Pioneer is 120.8 m longer than the 99.2 m median for lpg carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8013625 this registry holds 43 other vessels, whose median build year is 1981 and which range from 1980 to 1983. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1983.

Its IMO number, 8013625, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 = 95 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.