Båtsfjord

At 1,190 gross tons, Båtsfjord is the 64,214th 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 5.0 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,411 fishing vessels held here, it ranks 650th by tonnage — larger than 72% of that group. Their median tonnage is 738 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 2,773 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Russia (797 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Kuznia na Rybalskomu, with 175 hulls on record.

Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which Båtsfjord is the 1,723rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,126 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,102 GT. Browse every ship flagged Norway.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 180 fishing vessels flying the Norway flag, of which 73 are larger by tonnage.

Båtsfjord 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 985th 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.

At 50.0 m overall, Båtsfjord is 4.0 m shorter than the 54.0 m median for fishing vessels on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9184457 this registry holds 49 other vessels, whose median build year is 1999 and which range from 1997 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, 9184457, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 = 147 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.