Himeshima Maru No 2

At 197 gross tons, Himeshima Maru No 2 is the 80,988th 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 30 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 847th by tonnage — larger than 4% of that group. Their median tonnage is 3,908 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 25,454 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Japan (241 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with 34 hulls on record.

Japan is the country of registry for 2,663 vessels in this directory, of which Himeshima Maru No 2 is the 2,287th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,534 ships), and the median vessel measures 764 GT. Browse every ship flagged Japan.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 241 ferrys flying the Japan flag, of which 167 are larger by tonnage.

Himeshima Maru No 2 was built in 1992, making it 34 years old. It is one of 1,130 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,228 GT; within it this ship is the 1,061st largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9042958 this registry holds 35 other vessels, whose median build year is 1992 and which range from 1991 to 2006. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1992.

Its IMO number, 9042958, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 0×6 + 4×5 + 2×4 + 9×3 + 5×2 = 128 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.