At 1,369 gross tons, Farrell 256 is the 62,672nd 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 4.4 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 36 barges held here, it ranks 17th by tonnage — larger than 27% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,483 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 33,130 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (8 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Peene-Werft, with 2 hulls on record.
United States is the country of registry for 2,278 vessels in this directory, of which Farrell 256 is the 836th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (977 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,706 GT. Browse every ship flagged United States.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 8 barges flying the United States flag, of which 6 are larger by tonnage.
Farrell 256 was built in 1969, making it 57 years old. It is one of 814 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 992 GT; within it this ship is the 276th 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.
The registry attributes 10 vessels to Jeffboat, with a median tonnage of 1,448 GT, delivered between 1943 and 1985. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 61.0 m overall, Farrell 256 is 45.7 m shorter than the 106.7 m median for barges on record, with a beam of 17.1 m and a draft of 0.6 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8639352 this registry holds 16 other vessels, whose median build year is 1980 and which range from 1969 to 1999. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1969.
Its IMO number, 8639352, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 6×6 + 3×5 + 9×4 + 3×3 + 5×2 = 162 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.
