Glorious Leader

At 57,692 gross tons, Glorious Leader is the 8,453rd 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 9.6 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 162nd by tonnage — larger than 63% of that group. Their median tonnage is 49,792 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 68,871 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (132 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Shin Kurushima Dockyard, with 41 hulls on record.

Glorious Leader was built in 2007, making it 19 years old. It is one of 2,469 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,473 GT; within it this ship is the 249th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 227 vessels to Stocznia Gdynia, with a median tonnage of 23,817 GT, delivered between 1961 and 2009. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 200.0 m overall, Glorious Leader is 6.0 m longer than the 193.9 m median for car carriers on record, with a beam of 32.3 m and a draft of 10.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9357298 this registry holds 66 other vessels, whose median build year is 2007 and which range from 2005 to 2011. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2007.

Its IMO number, 9357298, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 5×5 + 7×4 + 2×3 + 9×2 = 158 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.