RFA Proteus

At 6,133 gross tons, RFA Proteus is the 41,727th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 23,872nd by tonnage — larger than 52% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which RFA Proteus is the 549th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,835 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 332 are larger by tonnage.

RFA Proteus was built in 2019, making it 7 years old. It is one of 1,261 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 29,000 GT; within it this ship is the 877th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 71 vessels to Vard Tulcea, with a median tonnage of 4,678 GT, delivered between 1985 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 98.1 m overall, RFA Proteus is 16.9 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 20.1 m and a draft of 6.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9792539 this registry holds 45 other vessels, whose median build year is 2017 and which range from 2014 to 2019. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2019.

Its IMO number, 9792539, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 7×6 + 9×5 + 2×4 + 5×3 + 3×2 = 179 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.