Aurora

At 312 gross tons, Aurora is the 77,690th 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 19 times smaller than 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 44,631st by tonnage — larger than 10% 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.

United States is the country of registry for 2,278 vessels in this directory, of which Aurora is the 1,312th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (977 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,706 GT. Browse every ship flagged United States.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 977 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the United States flag, of which 460 are larger by tonnage.

Aurora 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 1,137th 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.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8994128 this registry holds 29 other vessels, whose median build year is 1997 and which range from 1926 to 2006. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1999.

Its IMO number, 8994128, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 = 178 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.