Sam

At 1,969 gross tons, Sam is the 58,165th 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 3.0 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,423 offshore supplys held here, it ranks 714th by tonnage — larger than 48% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,061 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 4,961 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (283 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is North American Shipbuilding, with 55 hulls on record.

Vanuatu is the country of registry for 425 vessels in this directory, of which Sam is the 248th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (208 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,446 GT. Browse every ship flagged Vanuatu.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 74 offshore supplys flying the Vanuatu flag, of which 53 are larger by tonnage.

Sam 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 970th 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.

The registry attributes 74 vessels to Vard Brattvaag, with a median tonnage of 3,104 GT, delivered between 1966 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 67.0 m overall, Sam is within a metre of the 67.1 m median length for offshore supplys on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9173678 this registry holds 45 other vessels, whose median build year is 1998 and which range from 1997 to 2008. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.