Grande Angola

At 47,115 gross tons, Grande Angola is the 10,543rd 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 7.9 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 877 ro-ros held here, it ranks 55th by tonnage — larger than 93% of that group. Their median tonnage is 7,395 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 34,011 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Italy (62 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, with 16 hulls on record.

Italy is the country of registry for 918 vessels in this directory, of which Grande Angola is the 132nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (488 ships), and the median vessel measures 4,975 GT. Browse every ship flagged Italy.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 62 ro-ros flying the Italy flag, of which 14 are larger by tonnage.

Grande Angola was built in 2008, making it 18 years old. It is one of 2,764 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,971 GT; within it this ship is the 388th 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 144 vessels to Uljanik, with a median tonnage of 25,600 GT, delivered between 1952 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 210.0 m overall, Grande Angola is 85.0 m longer than the 125.0 m median for ro-ros on record, with a beam of 32.3 m and a draft of 9.8 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9343156 this registry holds 73 other vessels, whose median build year is 2007 and which range from 1970 to 2010. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2008.

Its IMO number, 9343156, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 4×5 + 3×4 + 1×3 + 5×2 = 126 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.