Spring 3

At 12,394 gross tons, Spring 3 is the 33,001st 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 2.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,402 tankers held here, it ranks 916th by tonnage — larger than 60% of that group. Their median tonnage is 8,256 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 42,340 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (219 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 175 hulls on record.

Gabon is the country of registry for 48 vessels in this directory, of which Spring 3 is the 22nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (23 ships), and the median vessel measures 11,829 GT. Browse every ship flagged Gabon.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 3 tankers flying the Gabon flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.

Spring 3 was built in 1995, making it 31 years old. It is one of 1,092 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,255 GT; within it this ship is the 452nd 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 740 vessels to Shin Kurushima Dockyard, with a median tonnage of 16,762 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 152.0 m overall, Spring 3 is 13.0 m longer than the 139.0 m median for tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9108104 this registry holds 58 other vessels, whose median build year is 1995 and which range from 1993 to 2000. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.