IMO 5177339

At 1,767 gross tons, IMO 5177339 is the 59,456th 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 3.4 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 3,794th by tonnage — larger than 31% 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 5177339 was built in 1948, making it 78 years old. It is one of 123 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,126 GT; within it this ship is the 19th 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 9 vessels to William Gray & Company, with a median tonnage of 1,767 GT, delivered between 1931 and 1954. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 92.4 m overall, IMO 5177339 is 8.6 m shorter than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5177339 this registry holds 10 other vessels, whose median build year is 1954 and which range from 1948 to 1957. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1948.

Its IMO number, 5177339, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 1×6 + 7×5 + 7×4 + 3×3 + 3×2 = 119 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.