Seishu Maru

At 136,740 gross tons, Seishu Maru is the 1,826th 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 23 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 270 lng carriers held here, it ranks 17th by tonnage — larger than 93% of that group. Their median tonnage is 105,826 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 128,416 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Marshall Islands (37 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Samsung Heavy Industries, with 39 hulls on record.

The Bahamas is the country of registry for 1,614 vessels in this directory, of which Seishu Maru is the 100th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (940 ships), and the median vessel measures 30,020 GT. Browse every ship flagged The Bahamas.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 22 lng carriers flying the The Bahamas flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.

Seishu Maru was built in 2014, making it 12 years old. It is one of 1,868 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 21,828 GT; within it this ship is the 73rd 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.

At 288.0 m overall, Seishu Maru is within a metre of the 288.0 m median length for lng carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9666558 this registry holds 49 other vessels, whose median build year is 2014 and which range from 2012 to 2019. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2014.

Its IMO number, 9666558, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 178 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.