«Foldenfjord»

At 3,857 gross tons, «Foldenfjord» is the 48,435th 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 1.6 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 2,261st by tonnage — larger than 59% 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.

«Foldenfjord» was built in 1953, making it 73 years old. It is one of 179 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,502 GT; within it this ship is the 27th largest. Across the whole of the 1950s the registry holds 2,005 vessels, median 960 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 33 vessels to Lindholmen Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 4,672 GT, delivered between 1881 and 1968. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 129.0 m overall, «Foldenfjord» is 28.0 m longer than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record and a draft of 7.1 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5117365 this registry holds 13 other vessels, whose median build year is 1953 and which range from 1921 to 1962. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1953.

Its IMO number, 5117365, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 1×6 + 1×5 + 7×4 + 3×3 + 6×2 = 95 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.