Sea Dolphin

At 44,637 gross tons, Sea Dolphin is the 11,070th 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 7.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 578 lpg carriers held here, it ranks 62nd by tonnage — larger than 89% 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.

Comoros is the country of registry for 506 vessels in this directory, of which Sea Dolphin is the 66th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (295 ships), and the median vessel measures 8,205 GT. Browse every ship flagged Comoros.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 6 lpg carriers flying the Comoros flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.

Sea Dolphin was built in 1990, making it 36 years old. It is one of 1,306 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,025 GT; within it this ship is the 92nd 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 170 vessels to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard & Machinery Works, with a median tonnage of 52,863 GT, delivered between 1954 and 2011. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 230.0 m overall, Sea Dolphin is 130.8 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 8920000 this registry holds 67 other vessels. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.