Barakuda Natuna

At 61,619 gross tons, Barakuda Natuna is the 7,732nd 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 10 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 685th by tonnage — larger than 77% 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.

Indonesia is the country of registry for 2,700 vessels in this directory, of which Barakuda Natuna is the 23rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,484 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,078 GT. Browse every ship flagged Indonesia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 185 oil tankers flying the Indonesia flag, of which 4 are larger by tonnage.

Barakuda Natuna was built in 1998, making it 28 years old. It is one of 1,367 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,381 GT; within it this ship is the 79th 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 244.0 m overall, Barakuda Natuna is 65.0 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 9138604 this registry holds 82 other vessels, whose median build year is 1997 and which range from 1991 to 2004. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1998.

Its IMO number, 9138604, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 3×5 + 8×4 + 6×3 + 0×2 = 134 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.