Tellus

At 61,653 gross tons, Tellus is the 7,726th 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 10 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,402 tankers held here, it ranks 158th by tonnage — larger than 93% 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.

Cameroon is the country of registry for 80 vessels in this directory, of which Tellus is the 11th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (35 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,550 GT. Browse every ship flagged Cameroon.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 3 tankers flying the Cameroon flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.

Tellus was built in 2003, making it 23 years old. It is one of 1,383 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,954 GT; within it this ship is the 178th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 244.0 m overall, Tellus is 105.0 m longer than the 139.0 m median for tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9246138 this registry holds 61 other vessels, whose median build year is 2002 and which range from 2000 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2003.

Its IMO number, 9246138, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 = 128 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.