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Largest in this registry
#21,176
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest tanker
#518
of 2,270 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
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No operator attributed to this ship
Vessel particulars
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
Construction
In context
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 28,027 gross tons, Sam Purpose is the 21,176th 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 4.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 2,402 tankers held here, it ranks 518th by tonnage — larger than 77% of that group. Their median tonnage is 8,256 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 42,340 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (219 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 175 hulls on record.
Liberia is the country of registry for 4,741 vessels in this directory, of which Sam Purpose is the 2,704th 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 152 tankers flying the Liberia flag, of which 69 are larger by tonnage.
Sam Purpose 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 290th 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 309 vessels to Szczecin Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 16,639 GT, delivered between 1956 and 2014. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 183.0 m overall, Sam Purpose is 44.0 m longer than the 139.0 m median for tankers on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9118056 this registry holds 68 other vessels, whose median build year is 1996 and which range from 1994 to 1998. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryNo English Wikipedia article is linked to this vessel, so no summary is shown.
PhotographNo freely licensed photograph of this vessel is held, so none is shown.
Measurements
Its IMO number, 9118056, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 1×5 + 8×4 + 0×3 + 5×2 = 116 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among tankers
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| IMO 9254927 | 2003 | 28,059 |
| Minerva Joy | 2008 | 28,056 |
| Leruo | 2010 | 28,049 |
| Sam Purpose (this ship) | 1997 | 28,027 |
| «The Judge» | 2016 | 28,013 |
| Las Cuevas | 2000 | 27,955 |
| Ridgebury Apollo | 2007 | 27,916 |