IMO 5069489

At 1,926 gross tons, IMO 5069489 is the 58,523rd 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 3.1 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 3,658th by tonnage — larger than 34% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,963 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 10,970 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (565 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Cestné a Stavebné Mechanizmy Tisovec, with 137 hulls on record.

IMO 5069489 was built in 1945, making it 81 years old. It is one of 191 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,923 GT; within it this ship is the 34th largest. Across the whole of the 1940s the registry holds 1,039 vessels, median 4,053 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 59 vessels to Avondale Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 25,742 GT, delivered between 1945 and 2006. See the rest of that yard’s output.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5069489 this registry holds 9 other vessels, whose median build year is 1948 and which range from 1939 to 1954. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1945.

Its IMO number, 5069489, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 0×6 + 6×5 + 9×4 + 4×3 + 8×2 = 129 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.