African 4

At 15,710 gross tons, African 4 is the 30,402nd 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 2.6 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 17,049th by tonnage — larger than 66% 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.

Togo is the country of registry for 409 vessels in this directory, of which African 4 is the 34th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (232 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,864 GT. Browse every ship flagged Togo.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 232 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Togo flag, of which 13 are larger by tonnage.

African 4 was built in 1978, making it 48 years old. It is one of 1,698 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,556 GT; within it this ship is the 303rd largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 165.0 m overall, African 4 is 50.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7801324 this registry holds 39 other vessels, whose median build year is 1978 and which range from 1978 to 1984. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1978.

Its IMO number, 7801324, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 114 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.