Tropical Sand

At 9,932 gross tons, Tropical Sand is the 36,079th 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 1.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 20,497th by tonnage — larger than 59% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

Sierra Leone is the country of registry for 531 vessels in this directory, of which Tropical Sand is the 83rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (251 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,987 GT. Browse every ship flagged Sierra Leone.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 251 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Sierra Leone flag, of which 45 are larger by tonnage.

Tropical Sand 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 470th 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.

At 155.0 m overall, Tropical Sand is 40.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7219090 this registry holds 36 other vessels, whose median build year is 1972 and which range from 1971 to 1974. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1972.

Its IMO number, , carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 120 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.