Vidya

At 28,277 gross tons, Vidya is the 21,026th 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 4.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 1,314th by tonnage — larger than 56% 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.

Nigeria is the country of registry for 355 vessels in this directory, of which Vidya is the 13th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (233 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,530 GT. Browse every ship flagged Nigeria.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 35 oil tankers flying the Nigeria flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.

Vidya was built in 1994, making it 32 years old. It is one of 1,047 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 5,680 GT; within it this ship is the 219th 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.

At 169.0 m overall, Vidya is 10.0 m shorter than the 179.0 m median for oil tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9047398 this registry holds 49 other vessels, whose median build year is 1992 and which range from 1991 to 1997. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1994.

Its IMO number, 9047398, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 0×6 = 138 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.