Whitewood

At 12,582 gross tons, Whitewood is the 32,811th 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 2.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 5,932nd by tonnage — larger than 9% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.

Gibraltar is the country of registry for 202 vessels in this directory, of which Whitewood is the 52nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (109 ships), and the median vessel measures 4,721 GT. Browse every ship flagged Gibraltar.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 5 bulk carriers flying the Gibraltar flag, of which 4 are larger by tonnage.

Whitewood was built in 1978, making it 48 years old. It is one of 1,698 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,556 GT; within it this ship is the 405th 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.

The registry attributes 5 vessels to Juliana Constructora Gijonesa, with a median tonnage of 12,582 GT, delivered between 1978 and 1990. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 159.0 m overall, Whitewood is 31.0 m shorter than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7403691 this registry holds 54 other vessels, whose median build year is 1975. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.