Sea Sapphire

At 44,574 gross tons, Sea Sapphire is the 11,101st 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 63rd 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.

Liberia is the country of registry for 4,741 vessels in this directory, of which Sea Sapphire is the 1,496th 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 29 lpg carriers flying the Liberia flag, of which 4 are larger by tonnage.

Sea Sapphire was built in 1995, making it 31 years old. It is one of 1,092 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,255 GT; within it this ship is the 136th 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 Sapphire 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 9114581 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.