Boka Alpine

At 3,239 gross tons, Boka Alpine is the 50,714th 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 1.9 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 28,906th by tonnage — larger than 42% 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.

Boka Alpine was built in 2006, making it 20 years old. It is one of 2,118 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,539 GT; within it this ship is the 1,328th 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.

The registry attributes 88 vessels to Niigata Shipbuilding & Repair, with a median tonnage of 674 GT, delivered between 1971 and 2017. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 75.0 m overall, Boka Alpine is 40.0 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 9344784 this registry holds 70 other vessels, whose median build year is 2007 and which range from 2004 to 2017. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2006.

Its IMO number, 9344784, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 4×5 + 4×4 + 7×3 + 8×2 = 154 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.