At 873 gross tons, IMO 7609790 is the 67,301st 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 6.9 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 255 heavy lifts held here, it ranks 145th by tonnage — larger than 35% of that group. Their median tonnage is 1,670 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 24,484 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Russia (41 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Pella Sietas, with 8 hulls on record.
Germany is the country of registry for 885 vessels in this directory, of which IMO 7609790 is the 351st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (446 ships), and the median vessel measures 916 GT. Browse every ship flagged Germany.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 5 heavy lifts flying the Germany flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.
IMO 7609790 was built in 1974, making it 52 years old. It is one of 2,111 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,681 GT; within it this ship is the 1,140th 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.
The registry attributes 43 vessels to Baltic Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 20,646 GT, delivered between 1960 and 2022. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 46.0 m overall, IMO 7609790 is 34.5 m shorter than the 80.5 m median for heavy lifts on record and a draft of 2.9 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7609790 this registry holds 32 other vessels, whose median build year is 1978 and which range from 1957 to 1980. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1974.
Its IMO number, 7609790, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 6×6 + 0×5 + 9×4 + 7×3 + 9×2 = 160 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.
