At 3,370 gross tons, «The Taipan» is the 50,336th 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 1.8 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 617 passenger vessels held here, it ranks 103rd by tonnage — larger than 79% of that group. Their median tonnage is 909 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 9,718 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Egypt (65 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Meyer Werft, with 16 hulls on record.
Malta is the country of registry for 2,640 vessels in this directory, of which «The Taipan» is the 2,238th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,614 ships), and the median vessel measures 23,204 GT. Browse every ship flagged Malta.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 7 passenger vessels flying the Malta flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.
«The Taipan» was built in 1991, making it 35 years old. It is one of 1,166 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,997 GT; within it this ship is the 532nd 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.
The registry attributes 97 vessels to Flender Werke, with a median tonnage of 21,051 GT, delivered between 1923 and 2003. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 85.0 m overall, «The Taipan» is 24.0 m longer than the 61.0 m median for passenger vessels on record, with a beam of 16.0 m and a draft of 3.8 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8705278 this registry holds 67 other vessels, whose median build year is 1988 and which range from 1987 to 1994. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1991.
Its IMO number, 8705278, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 7×6 + 0×5 + 5×4 + 2×3 + 7×2 = 138 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.
