Hwa Rang

At 488 gross tons, Hwa Rang is the 74,305th 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 12 times smaller than 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 41,863rd by tonnage — larger than 16% 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.

South Korea is the country of registry for 1,392 vessels in this directory, of which Hwa Rang is the 1,183rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (722 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,716 GT. Browse every ship flagged South Korea.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 722 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the South Korea flag, of which 521 are larger by tonnage.

Hwa Rang 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 1,385th 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 54.0 m overall, Hwa Rang is 61.0 m shorter 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 7229318 this registry holds 41 other vessels, whose median build year is 1972 and which range from 1967 to 1979. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1971.

Its IMO number, , carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 118 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.