Don

At 539 gross tons, Don is the 72,663rd 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 11 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 40,693rd by tonnage — larger than 18% 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.

Russia is the country of registry for 2,810 vessels in this directory, of which Don is the 2,383rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (830 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,293 GT. Browse every ship flagged Russia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 830 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Russia flag, of which 559 are larger by tonnage.

Don was built in 1987, making it 39 years old. It is one of 819 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,937 GT; within it this ship is the 642nd 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.

At 42.9 m overall, Don is 72.1 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8859718 this registry holds 39 other vessels, whose median build year is 1991 and which range from 1967 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1987.

Its IMO number, 8859718, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 188 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.