IMO 8511794

At 4,337 gross tons, IMO 8511794 is the 46,550th 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 1.4 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 1,955th by tonnage — larger than 65% 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 8511794 was built in 1985, making it 41 years old. It is one of 1,312 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,782 GT; within it this ship is the 662nd largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 105.2 m overall, IMO 8511794 is 4.2 m longer than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record and a draft of 6.8 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8511794 this registry holds 35 other vessels, whose median build year is 1986 and which range from 1985 to 1997. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1985.

Its IMO number, 8511794, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 5×6 + 1×5 + 1×4 + 7×3 + 9×2 = 134 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.