«Galata Star»

At 18,430 gross tons, «Galata Star» is the 27,692nd 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 the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 5,232nd by tonnage — larger than 19% 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.

«Galata Star» was built in 1982, making it 44 years old. It is one of 1,706 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,592 GT; within it this ship is the 320th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 181 vessels to NKK, with a median tonnage of 56,076 GT, delivered between 1958 and 2003. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 179.9 m overall, «Galata Star» is 10.1 m shorter than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8101006 this registry holds 42 other vessels, whose median build year is 1982 and which range from 1980 to 1984. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1982.

Its IMO number, 8101006, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 1×6 + 0×5 + 1×4 + 0×3 + 0×2 = 66 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.