Cape Blanco

At 10,723 gross tons, Cape Blanco is the 34,886th 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 1.8 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 578th by tonnage — larger than 90% 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.

Cape Blanco was built in 1966, making it 60 years old. It is one of 440 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 839 GT; within it this ship is the 22nd largest. Across the whole of the 1960s the registry holds 4,074 vessels, median 844 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 59 vessels to Avondale Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 25,742 GT, delivered between 1945 and 2006. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 164.6 m overall, Cape Blanco is 63.6 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 6523808 this registry holds 13 other vessels, whose median build year is 1965 and which range from 1965 to 1966. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1966.

Its IMO number, 6523808, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 6×7 + 5×6 + 2×5 + 3×4 + 8×3 + 0×2 = 118 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.