Spar Corona

At 32,839 gross tons, Spar Corona is the 17,629th 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 5.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 9,797th by tonnage — larger than 80% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which Spar Corona is the 348th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,126 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,102 GT. Browse every ship flagged Norway.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 2,126 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Norway flag, of which 248 are larger by tonnage.

Spar Corona was built in 2011, making it 15 years old. It is one of 2,848 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 1,128th 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 201 vessels to Yangzhou Binjiang Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 32,837 GT, delivered between 1994 and 2018. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 190.0 m overall, Spar Corona is 75.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record and a draft of 12.9 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9497830 this registry holds 38 other vessels, whose median build year is 2011 and which range from 2009 to 2018. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2011.

Its IMO number, 9497830, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 4×6 + 9×5 + 7×4 + 8×3 + 3×2 = 190 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.