Sirius Star

At 162,252 gross tons, Sirius Star is the 565th 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 27 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 52nd by tonnage — larger than 98% 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.

Saudi Arabia is the country of registry for 302 vessels in this directory, of which Sirius Star is the 9th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (207 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,877 GT. Browse every ship flagged Saudi Arabia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 27 oil tankers flying the Saudi Arabia flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.

Sirius Star was built in 2008, making it 18 years old. It is one of 2,764 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,971 GT; within it this ship is the 19th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 1,090 vessels to Hanwha Ocean, with a median tonnage of 84,214 GT, delivered between 1982 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 332.0 m overall, Sirius Star is 153.0 m longer than the 179.0 m median for oil tankers on record, with a beam of 58.0 m and a draft of 22.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9384198 this registry holds 73 other vessels, whose median build year is 2008 and which range from 2006 to 2011. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2008.

Its IMO number, 9384198, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 8×5 + 4×4 + 1×3 + 9×2 = 158 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.