IMO 5240241

At 2,955 gross tons, IMO 5240241 is the 52,370th 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 2.0 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 29,755th by tonnage — larger than 40% 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.

IMO 5240241 was built in 1929, making it 97 years old. It is one of 66 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,456 GT; within it this ship is the 18th largest. Across the whole of the 1920s the registry holds 516 vessels, median 2,350 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 3 vessels to Euskalduna, with a median tonnage of 2,955 GT, delivered between 1929 and 1964. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 107.4 m overall, IMO 5240241 is 7.6 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record and a draft of 5.9 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5240241 this registry holds 8 other vessels, whose median build year is 1948 and which range from 1929 to 1956. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1929.

Its IMO number, 5240241, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 2×6 + 4×5 + 0×4 + 2×3 + 4×2 = 81 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.