At 496 gross tons, Fairplay 24 is the 73,876th 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 1,471 tugs held here, it ranks 505th by tonnage — larger than 60% of that group. Their median tonnage is 393 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 1,733 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (239 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Damen Shipyards Gorinchem, with 62 hulls on record.
Antigua and Barbuda is the country of registry for 734 vessels in this directory, of which Fairplay 24 is the 704th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (372 ships), and the median vessel measures 6,351 GT. Browse every ship flagged Antigua and Barbuda.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 3 tugs flying the Antigua and Barbuda flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.
Fairplay 24 was built in 1998, making it 28 years old. It is one of 1,367 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,381 GT; within it this ship is the 1,195th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
At 35.0 m overall, Fairplay 24 is 2.7 m longer than the 32.3 m median for tugs on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9153616 this registry holds 53 other vessels, whose median build year is 1997 and which range from 1996 to 2011. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1998.
Its IMO number, 9153616, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 5×5 + 3×4 + 6×3 + 1×2 = 126 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.
