At 14,377 gross tons, «BW Havlys» is the 31,406th 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 2.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 578 lpg carriers held here, it ranks 150th by tonnage — larger than 74% of that group. Their median tonnage is 3,901 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 44,690 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (100 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 40 hulls on record.
East Germany is the country of registry for 22 vessels in this directory, of which «BW Havlys» is the 1st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (16 ships), and the median vessel measures 11,042 GT. Browse every ship flagged East Germany.
«BW Havlys» was built in 1983, making it 43 years old. It is one of 1,578 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,112 GT; within it this ship is the 380th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 210 vessels to Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, with a median tonnage of 30,285 GT, delivered between 1905 and 2010. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 157.3 m overall, «BW Havlys» is 58.1 m longer than the 99.2 m median for lpg carriers on record, with a beam of 22.7 m and a draft of 8.4 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8105052 this registry holds 34 other vessels, whose median build year is 1982 and which range from 1981 to 1983. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1983.
Its IMO number, 8105052, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 1×6 + 0×5 + 5×4 + 0×3 + 5×2 = 92 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.
