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No gross tonnage is recorded for this vessel, so it cannot be ranked by size. Rank is only shown where the underlying measurement exists.
Vessel particulars
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
Construction
Measurements
In context
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
BX 653 Essen was built in 1957, making it 69 years old. It is one of 261 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,300 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.
The registry attributes 40 vessels to Rickmers Werft, with a median tonnage of 5,952 GT, delivered between 1950 and 1986. See the rest of that yard’s output.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5106603 this registry holds 13 other vessels, whose median build year is 1957 and which range from 1929 to 1960. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1957.
Its IMO number, 5106603, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 1×6 + 0×5 + 6×4 + 6×3 + 0×2 = 83 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by IMO number
| Ship | IMO | Built |
|---|---|---|
| Essen | 5106598 | 1953 |
| Essex | 5106639 | 1954 |
| Flora | 5106677 | 1959 |
| MV Essex Ferry | 5106693 | 1957 |
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryNo English Wikipedia article is linked to this vessel, so no summary is shown.
PhotographBy Wolfgang Fricke, reused under CC BY 3.0.
