Navigator Copernico

At 17,208 gross tons, Navigator Copernico is the 28,742nd 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 2.9 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 578 lpg carriers held here, it ranks 142nd by tonnage — larger than 75% of that group. Their median tonnage is 3,901 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 44,690 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (100 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 40 hulls on record.

Liberia is the country of registry for 4,741 vessels in this directory, of which Navigator Copernico is the 3,529th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,739 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,983 GT. Browse every ship flagged Liberia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 29 lpg carriers flying the Liberia flag, of which 13 are larger by tonnage.

Navigator Copernico was built in 2016, making it 10 years old. It is one of 1,628 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 26,388 GT; within it this ship is the 979th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 186 vessels to Jiangnan Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 36,438 GT, delivered between 1973 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 159.9 m overall, Navigator Copernico is 60.7 m longer than the 99.2 m median for lpg carriers on record and a draft of 9.4 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9704520 this registry holds 49 other vessels, whose median build year is 2015 and which range from 2011 to 2018. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2016.

Its IMO number, 9704520, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 7×6 + 0×5 + 4×4 + 5×3 + 2×2 = 140 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.