Yang Lin Wan

At 61,713 gross tons, Yang Lin Wan is the 7,721st 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 10 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 682nd by tonnage — larger than 77% 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.

People's Republic of China is the country of registry for 3,427 vessels in this directory, of which Yang Lin Wan is the 93rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,851 ships), and the median vessel measures 10,532 GT. Browse every ship flagged People's Republic of China.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 164 oil tankers flying the People's Republic of China flag, of which 7 are larger by tonnage.

Yang Lin Wan was built in 2004, making it 22 years old. It is one of 1,485 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 17,188 GT; within it this ship is the 193rd 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.

At 244.0 m overall, Yang Lin Wan is 65.0 m longer than the 179.0 m median for oil tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9283265 this registry holds 74 other vessels, whose median build year is 2004 and which range from 2003 to 2006. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2004.

Its IMO number, 9283265, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 145 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.