British Beacon

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Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 2,739 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Liberia flag.

British Beacon was built in 1959, making it 67 years old. It is one of 245 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 517 GT. Across the whole of the 1950s the registry holds 2,005 vessels, median 960 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 208.2 m overall, British Beacon is 93.2 m longer 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 5052395 this registry holds 6 other vessels, whose median build year is 1954 and which range from 1939 to 1960. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1959.

Its IMO number, 5052395, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 0×6 + 5×5 + 2×4 + 3×3 + 9×2 = 95 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.