IMO 8663963

At 111 gross tons, IMO 8663963 is the 83,455th 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 54 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 612 research / surveys held here, it ranks 477th by tonnage — larger than 1% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,180 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 9,452 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (90 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Wärtsilä, with 36 hulls on record.

Canada is the country of registry for 633 vessels in this directory, of which IMO 8663963 is the 475th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (404 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,800 GT. Browse every ship flagged Canada.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 38 research / surveys flying the Canada flag, of which 29 are larger by tonnage.

IMO 8663963 was built in 2011, making it 15 years old. It is one of 2,848 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 2,730th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 6 vessels to Hike Metal Products, with a median tonnage of 270 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2011. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 65.0 m overall, IMO 8663963 is 6.0 m shorter than the 71.0 m median for research / surveys on record and a draft of 6.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8663963 this registry holds 4 other vessels, whose median build year is 2008 and which range from 1993 to 2011. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2011.

Its IMO number, 8663963, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 6×6 + 6×5 + 3×4 + 9×3 + 6×2 = 173 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.