BBC California

At 9,611 gross tons, BBC California is the 36,564th 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 1.6 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,085 multi-purposes held here, it ranks 125th by tonnage — larger than 85% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,998 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 11,901 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Netherlands (170 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is SLKB Komarno – Slovak Shipyard Komárno, with 78 hulls on record.

Syria is the country of registry for 31 vessels in this directory, of which BBC California is the 5th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (19 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,452 GT. Browse every ship flagged Syria.

BBC California was built in 2004, making it 22 years old. It is one of 1,485 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 17,188 GT; within it this ship is the 794th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 138.0 m overall, BBC California is 48.0 m longer than the 90.0 m median for multi-purposes on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9274331 this registry holds 62 other vessels, whose median build year is 2004 and which range from 2002 to 2007. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2004.

Its IMO number, 9274331, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 7×5 + 4×4 + 3×3 + 3×2 = 141 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.