Avvaiyyar

At 273 gross tons, Avvaiyyar is the 78,882nd 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 22 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 45,627th by tonnage — larger than 8% 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.

India is the country of registry for 968 vessels in this directory, of which Avvaiyyar is the 929th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (514 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,306 GT. Browse every ship flagged India.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 514 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the India flag, of which 489 are larger by tonnage.

Avvaiyyar was built in 1985, making it 41 years old. It is one of 1,312 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,782 GT; within it this ship is the 1,176th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 44.0 m overall, Avvaiyyar is 71.0 m shorter 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 8311675 this registry holds 55 other vessels, whose median build year is 1985 and which range from 1983 to 1989. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1985.

Its IMO number, , carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 115 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.