Hernes

At 9,077 gross tons, Hernes is the 37,295th 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 1.5 times 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 21,266th by tonnage — larger than 57% 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.

Thailand is the country of registry for 612 vessels in this directory, of which Hernes is the 100th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (335 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,958 GT. Browse every ship flagged Thailand.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 335 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Thailand flag, of which 52 are larger by tonnage.

Hernes was built in 1977, making it 49 years old. It is one of 1,791 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 5,622 GT; within it this ship is the 665th largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 143.0 m overall, Hernes is 28.0 m longer 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 7633765 this registry holds 29 other vessels, whose median build year is 1977 and which range from 1976 to 1979. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1977.

Its IMO number, 7633765, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 145 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.