Taurus

At 7,292 gross tons, Taurus is the 39,792nd 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 1.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 604 chemical / products tankers held here, it ranks 257th by tonnage — larger than 55% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,979 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 25,682 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (80 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 35 hulls on record.

Saint Kitts and Nevis is the country of registry for 545 vessels in this directory, of which Taurus is the 295th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (324 ships), and the median vessel measures 10,964 GT. Browse every ship flagged Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 8 chemical / products tankers flying the Saint Kitts and Nevis flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.

Taurus was built in 1992, making it 34 years old. It is one of 1,130 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,228 GT; within it this ship is the 402nd 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.

At 126.0 m overall, Taurus is 6.9 m longer than the 119.1 m median for chemical / products tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8903959 this registry holds 60 other vessels, whose median build year is 1990 and which range from 1988 to 1995. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1992.

Its IMO number, 8903959, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 159 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.