HMS Challenger

At 9,111 gross tons, HMS Challenger is the 37,247th 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 1.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 611 naval / patrols held here, it ranks 54th by tonnage — larger than 80% of that group. Their median tonnage is 1,325 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 23,606 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (136 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Austal, with 33 hulls on record.

United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which HMS Challenger is the 396th 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 46 naval / patrols flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 8 are larger by tonnage.

HMS Challenger was built in 1984, making it 42 years old. It is one of 1,492 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,366 GT; within it this ship is the 571st 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 9 vessels to Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, with a median tonnage of 9,111 GT, delivered between 1949 and 1984. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 149.5 m overall, HMS Challenger is 63.0 m longer than the 86.5 m median for naval / patrols on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7907697 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.