Brother Glory

At 27,105 gross tons, Brother Glory is the 21,629th 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 4.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 3,940th by tonnage — larger than 39% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.

United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which Brother Glory is the 263rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 39 bulk carriers flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 32 are larger by tonnage.

Brother Glory was built in 1998, making it 28 years old. It is one of 1,367 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,381 GT; within it this ship is the 292nd 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 189.0 m overall, Brother Glory is 1.0 m shorter than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9143489 this registry holds 77 other vessels, whose median build year is 1997 and which range from 1995 to 1999. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1998.

Its IMO number, 9143489, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 129 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.