Furkan

At 1,948 gross tons, Furkan is the 58,329th 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 3.1 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 33,060th by tonnage — larger than 33% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

Sierra Leone is the country of registry for 531 vessels in this directory, of which Furkan is the 348th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (251 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,987 GT. Browse every ship flagged Sierra Leone.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 251 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Sierra Leone flag, of which 172 are larger by tonnage.

Furkan was built in 1964, making it 62 years old. It is one of 309 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 909 GT; within it this ship is the 40th 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.

At 95.0 m overall, Furkan is 20.0 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7335870 this registry holds 58 other vessels, whose median build year is 1971 and which range from 1920 to 1973. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1964.

Its IMO number, , carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 140 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.