Astrahana

At 704 gross tons, Astrahana is the 69,762nd 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 8.5 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 255 heavy lifts held here, it ranks 178th by tonnage — larger than 20% of that group. Their median tonnage is 1,670 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 24,484 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Russia (41 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Pella Sietas, with 8 hulls on record.

Latvia is the country of registry for 87 vessels in this directory, of which Astrahana is the 47th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (43 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,596 GT. Browse every ship flagged Latvia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 8 heavy lifts flying the Latvia flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.

Astrahana was built in 1969, making it 57 years old. It is one of 814 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 992 GT; within it this ship is the 366th largest. Across the whole of the 1960s the registry holds 4,074 vessels, median 844 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 46.0 m overall, Astrahana is 34.5 m shorter than the 80.5 m median for heavy lifts on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8925543 this registry holds 23 other vessels, whose median build year is 1971 and which range from 1964 to 1996. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1969.

Its IMO number, 8925543, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 9×6 = 163 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.