Unique Guardian

At 29,411 gross tons, Unique Guardian is the 20,234th 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 4.9 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 11,468th by tonnage — larger than 77% 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.

Hong Kong is the country of registry for 2,385 vessels in this directory, of which Unique Guardian is the 1,353rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,478 ships), and the median vessel measures 33,042 GT. Browse every ship flagged Hong Kong.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,478 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Hong Kong flag, of which 828 are larger by tonnage.

Unique Guardian was built in 2001, making it 25 years old. It is one of 1,268 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 14,062 GT; within it this ship is the 372nd 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.

The registry attributes 213 vessels to Onomichi Dockyard, with a median tonnage of 28,520 GT, delivered between 1963 and 2023. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 182.5 m overall, Unique Guardian is 67.5 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record and a draft of 17.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9540821 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.