H38 Cruzeiro do Sul

At 1,716 gross tons, H38 Cruzeiro do Sul is the 59,807th 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 3.5 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 612 research / surveys held here, it ranks 279th by tonnage — larger than 42% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,180 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 9,452 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (90 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Wärtsilä, with 36 hulls on record.

Brazil is the country of registry for 445 vessels in this directory, of which H38 Cruzeiro do Sul is the 309th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (296 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,519 GT. Browse every ship flagged Brazil.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 6 research / surveys flying the Brazil flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.

H38 Cruzeiro do Sul was built in 1986, making it 40 years old. It is one of 866 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,769 GT; within it this ship is the 570th 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 61 vessels to Sterkoder, with a median tonnage of 1,899 GT, delivered between 1969 and 2003. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 65.7 m overall, H38 Cruzeiro do Sul is 5.3 m shorter than the 71.0 m median for research / surveys on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8600246 this registry holds 18 other vessels, whose median build year is 1987 and which range from 1984 to 1990. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1986.

Its IMO number, 8600246, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 6×6 + 0×5 + 0×4 + 2×3 + 4×2 = 106 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.