Hilda A

At 2,322 gross tons, Hilda A is the 56,006th 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 2.6 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,411 fishing vessels held here, it ranks 345th by tonnage — larger than 85% of that group. Their median tonnage is 738 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 2,773 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Russia (797 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Kuznia na Rybalskomu, with 175 hulls on record.

Ghana is the country of registry for 68 vessels in this directory, of which Hilda A is the 6th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (54 ships), and the median vessel measures 492 GT. Browse every ship flagged Ghana.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 10 fishing vessels flying the Ghana flag, of which none is larger than Hilda A.

Hilda A was built in 1971, making it 55 years old. It is one of 1,927 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,462 GT; within it this ship is the 895th 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 106.0 m overall, Hilda A is 52.0 m longer than the 54.0 m median for fishing vessels on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7022617 this registry holds 45 other vessels, whose median build year is 1970 and which range from 1960 to 1972. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1971.

Its IMO number, 7022617, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 = 87 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.