Salammbo

At 17,907 gross tons, Salammbo is the 28,187th 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 3.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 877 ro-ros held here, it ranks 216th by tonnage — larger than 73% of that group. Their median tonnage is 7,395 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 34,011 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Italy (62 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, with 16 hulls on record.

Tunisia is the country of registry for 35 vessels in this directory, of which Salammbo is the 6th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (24 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,779 GT. Browse every ship flagged Tunisia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 4 ro-ros flying the Tunisia flag, of which none is larger than Salammbo.

Salammbo 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 446th 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 97 vessels to Schichau Seebeckwerft, with a median tonnage of 16,236 GT, delivered between 1909 and 2011. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 162.0 m overall, Salammbo is 37.0 m longer than the 125.0 m median for ro-ros on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9142461 this registry holds 63 other vessels, whose median build year is 1996 and which range from 1995 to 2013. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.