Bulgaria is the country of registry for 80 vessels in this directory. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (55 ships), and the median vessel measures 7,230 GT. Browse every ship flagged Bulgaria.
Akademik was built in 1979, making it 47 years old. It is one of 1,718 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,382 GT. 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.
The registry attributes 205 vessels to Kuznia na Rybalskomu, with a median tonnage of 746 GT, delivered between 1963 and 2009. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 55.5 m overall, Akademik is 15.5 m shorter than the 71.0 m median for research / surveys on record and a draft of 4.8 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8138463 this registry holds 44 other vessels, whose median build year is 1982 and which range from 1903 to 1991. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1979.
Its IMO number, 8138463, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 1×6 + 3×5 + 8×4 + 4×3 + 6×2 = 133 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.
