IMO 5198436

At 158 gross tons, IMO 5198436 is the 82,079th 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 38 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 617 passenger vessels held here, it ranks 453rd by tonnage — larger than 8% of that group. Their median tonnage is 909 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 9,718 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Egypt (65 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Meyer Werft, with 16 hulls on record.

Sweden is the country of registry for 370 vessels in this directory, of which IMO 5198436 is the 240th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (195 ships), and the median vessel measures 972 GT. Browse every ship flagged Sweden.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 19 passenger vessels flying the Sweden flag, of which 9 are larger by tonnage.

IMO 5198436 was built in 1908, making it 118 years old. It is one of 43 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 904 GT; within it this ship is the 30th largest. Across the whole of the 1900s the registry holds 483 vessels, median 1,866 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 90 vessels to Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstad, with a median tonnage of 11,582 GT, delivered between 1907 and 1978. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 31.3 m overall, IMO 5198436 is 29.7 m shorter than the 61.0 m median for passenger vessels on record and a draft of 2.3 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5198436 this registry holds 9 other vessels, whose median build year is 1926 and which range from 1908 to 1960. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1908.

Its IMO number, 5198436, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 1×6 + 9×5 + 8×4 + 4×3 + 3×2 = 136 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.