Fedor Varaksin

At 10,133 gross tons, Fedor Varaksin is the 35,524th 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 1.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 626th by tonnage — larger than 89% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,963 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 10,970 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (565 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Cestné a Stavebné Mechanizmy Tisovec, with 137 hulls on record.

Turkey is the country of registry for 748 vessels in this directory, of which Fedor Varaksin is the 201st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (450 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,113 GT. Browse every ship flagged Turkey.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 98 general cargos flying the Turkey flag, of which 5 are larger by tonnage.

Fedor Varaksin was built in 1977, making it 49 years old. It is one of 1,791 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 5,622 GT; within it this ship is the 619th largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 175 vessels to Gdańsk Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 9,899 GT, delivered between 1930 and 2014. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 151.8 m overall, Fedor Varaksin is 50.8 m longer than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record and a draft of 8.7 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7625691 this registry holds 31 other vessels, whose median build year is 1978 and which range from 1976 to 1982. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1977.

Its IMO number, 7625691, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 6×6 + 2×5 + 5×4 + 6×3 + 9×2 = 151 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.