Dixie Queen

Dixie Queen was built in 1968, making it 58 years old. It is one of 536 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 769 GT. 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 31 vessels to Åsiverken, with a median tonnage of 296 GT, delivered between 1955 and 1984. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 56.1 m overall, Dixie Queen is 58.9 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 11.0 m and a draft of 2.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8958007 this registry holds 11 other vessels, whose median build year is 1999 and which range from 1968 to 1999. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1968.

Its IMO number, 8958007, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 9×6 + 5×5 + 8×4 + 0×3 + 0×2 = 167 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.