Brasil

At 7,135 gross tons, Brasil is the 40,098th 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 1.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 1,143rd by tonnage — larger than 79% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,963 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 10,970 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (565 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Cestné a Stavebné Mechanizmy Tisovec, with 137 hulls on record.

Brasil was built in 1943, making it 83 years old. It is one of 142 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 5,745 GT; within it this ship is the 18th largest. Across the whole of the 1940s the registry holds 1,039 vessels, median 4,053 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 65 vessels to Götaverken, with a median tonnage of 7,041 GT, delivered between 1910 and 1989. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 128.4 m overall, Brasil is 27.4 m longer than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5050579 this registry holds 23 other vessels, whose median build year is 1947 and which range from 1929 to 1958. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1943.

Its IMO number, 5050579, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 0×6 + 5×5 + 0×4 + 5×3 + 7×2 = 89 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.