Algeciras Jet

At 2,273 gross tons, Algeciras Jet is the 56,311th 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 smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 563rd by tonnage — larger than 36% of that group. Their median tonnage is 3,908 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 25,454 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Japan (241 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with 34 hulls on record.

Algeciras Jet was built in 1999, making it 27 years old. It is one of 1,252 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,594 GT; within it this ship is the 868th 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 97 vessels to Kvaerner Fjellstrand, with a median tonnage of 472 GT, delivered between 1963 and 2018. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 60.0 m overall, Algeciras Jet is 44.0 m shorter than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 16.5 m and a draft of 2.4 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9198551 this registry holds 67 other vessels, whose median build year is 2000 and which range from 1998 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1999.

Its IMO number, 9198551, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 9×5 + 8×4 + 5×3 + 5×2 = 171 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.