Elafonissos

At 493 gross tons, Elafonissos is the 74,096th 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 12 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 41,686th by tonnage — larger than 16% 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.

Cyprus is the country of registry for 1,418 vessels in this directory, of which Elafonissos is the 1,334th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (915 ships), and the median vessel measures 15,666 GT. Browse every ship flagged Cyprus.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 915 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Cyprus flag, of which 850 are larger by tonnage.

Elafonissos was built in 1967, making it 59 years old. It is one of 496 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 757 GT; within it this ship is the 200th 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.

At 54.0 m overall, Elafonissos is 61.0 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 7335258 this registry holds 48 other vessels, whose median build year is 1968 and which range from 1964 to 1973. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1967.

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