At 14,512 gross tons, Snow Flower is the 31,291st 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 2.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 494 reefers held here, it ranks 7th by tonnage — larger than 99% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,893 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 12,345 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (80 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Kitanihon Shipbuilding, with 24 hulls on record.
Cook Islands is the country of registry for 193 vessels in this directory, of which Snow Flower is the 38th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (94 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,988 GT. Browse every ship flagged Cook Islands.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 3 reefers flying the Cook Islands flag, of which none is larger than Snow Flower.
Snow Flower was built in 1972, making it 54 years old. It is one of 1,928 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,016 GT; within it this ship is the 338th largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 5 vessels to Chantier naval de La Ciotat, with a median tonnage of 12,958 GT, delivered between 1956 and 1973. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 173.0 m overall, Snow Flower is 44.6 m longer than the 128.4 m median for reefers on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7114953 this registry holds 64 other vessels, whose median build year is 1971 and which range from 1957 to 1979. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1972.
Its IMO number, 7114953, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 1×6 + 1×5 + 4×4 + 9×3 + 5×2 = 113 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.
