Esso Hibernia

At 126,539 gross tons, Esso Hibernia is the 2,086th 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 21 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,402 tankers held here, it ranks 48th by tonnage — larger than 98% of that group. Their median tonnage is 8,256 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 42,340 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (219 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 175 hulls on record.

United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which Esso Hibernia is the 28th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 36 tankers flying the United Kingdom flag, of which none is larger than Esso Hibernia.

The registry attributes 124 vessels to Swan Hunter, with a median tonnage of 6,944 GT, delivered between 1903 and 2006. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 348.0 m overall, Esso Hibernia is 209.0 m longer than the 139.0 m median for tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7015999 this registry holds 42 other vessels, whose median build year is 1970 and which range from 1969 to 1971. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series; no build year is recorded for this vessel itself.

Its IMO number, 7015999, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 0×6 + 1×5 + 5×4 + 9×3 = 119 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.