Charles M.

At 403 gross tons, Charles M. is the 75,815th 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 15 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 43,114th by tonnage — larger than 13% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which Charles M. is the 1,586th 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 1,835 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 1,203 are larger by tonnage.

Charles M. was built in 1935, making it 91 years old. It is one of 50 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 448 GT; within it this ship is the 12th largest. Across the whole of the 1930s the registry holds 552 vessels, median 1,138 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 1163562 this registry holds 13 other vessels, whose median build year is 1934 and which range from 1933 to 1949. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1935.

Its IMO number, 1163562, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 1×7 = 82 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.