United Moonlight

At 29,649 gross tons, United Moonlight is the 19,975th 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 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 1,223rd by tonnage — larger than 59% of that group. Their median tonnage is 22,184 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 149,274 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (301 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 190 hulls on record.

Liberia is the country of registry for 4,741 vessels in this directory, of which United Moonlight is the 2,591st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,739 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,983 GT. Browse every ship flagged Liberia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 246 oil tankers flying the Liberia flag, of which 182 are larger by tonnage.

United Moonlight was built in 1982, making it 44 years old. It is one of 1,706 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,592 GT; within it this ship is the 169th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 10 vessels to Horten Verft, with a median tonnage of 17,669 GT, delivered between 1887 and 1982. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 207.0 m overall, United Moonlight is 28.0 m longer than the 179.0 m median for oil tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8012102 this registry holds 42 other vessels, whose median build year is 1982. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.