Adele

At 2,481 gross tons, Adele is the 54,927th 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 2.4 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,085 multi-purposes held here, it ranks 619th by tonnage — larger than 35% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,998 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 11,901 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Netherlands (170 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is SLKB Komarno – Slovak Shipyard Komárno, with 78 hulls on record.

Adele was built in 1991, making it 35 years old. It is one of 1,166 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,997 GT; within it this ship is the 639th 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 68 vessels to ENVC Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 3,798 GT, delivered between 1954 and 2009. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 87.4 m overall, Adele is 2.6 m shorter than the 90.0 m median for multi-purposes on record, with a beam of 13.0 m and a draft of 5.1 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8912027 this registry holds 71 other vessels, whose median build year is 1990 and which range from 1989 to 1992. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1991.

Its IMO number, 8912027, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 9×6 + 1×5 + 2×4 + 0×3 + 2×2 = 127 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.