«Falcon Cape»

At 77,529 gross tons, «Falcon Cape» is the 6,000th 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 13 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 766th by tonnage — larger than 88% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.

«Falcon Cape» was built in 1991, making it 35 years old. It is one of 1,166 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,997 GT; within it this ship is the 52nd 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.

The registry attributes 274 vessels to Namura Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 44,442 GT, delivered between 1966 and 2018. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 273.0 m overall, «Falcon Cape» is 83.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8914257 this registry holds 55 other vessels, whose median build year is 1991 and which range from 1989 to 1993. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1991.

Its IMO number, 8914257, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 9×6 + 1×5 + 4×4 + 2×3 + 5×2 = 147 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.