Largest in this registry
#9,734
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest tanker
#198
of 2,270 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
—
No operator attributed to this ship
Vessel particulars
Identification and dimensions
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
- IMO number
- 7033264
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- Call sign
- Flag state
- Germany
- Port of registry
- —
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Tanker
In context
How Southern Sun compares
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 50,925 gross tons, Southern Sun is the 9,734th 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 8.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 2,402 tankers held here, it ranks 198th by tonnage — larger than 91% 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.
Germany is the country of registry for 885 vessels in this directory, of which Southern Sun is the 72nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (446 ships), and the median vessel measures 916 GT. Browse every ship flagged Germany.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 35 tankers flying the Germany flag, of which none is larger than Southern Sun.
Southern Sun was built in 1971, making it 55 years old. It is one of 1,927 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,462 GT; within it this ship is the 96th 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 35 vessels to La Naval (Sestao), with a median tonnage of 28,338 GT, delivered between 1965 and 2018. See the rest of that yard’s output.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7033264 this registry holds 39 other vessels, whose median build year is 1971 and which range from 1964 to 1976. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1971.
Its IMO number, , carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 94 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at La Naval (Sestao)
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
Where this page comes from
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