«Independence II»

At 55,598 gross tons, «Independence II» is the 8,893rd 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 9.3 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 200th by tonnage — larger than 57% of that group. Their median tonnage is 49,792 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 68,871 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (132 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Shin Kurushima Dockyard, with 41 hulls on record.

«Independence II» was built in 1994, making it 32 years old. It is one of 1,047 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 5,680 GT; within it this ship is the 72nd largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 1,090 vessels to Hanwha Ocean, with a median tonnage of 84,214 GT, delivered between 1982 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 200.0 m overall, «Independence II» is 6.1 m longer than the 193.9 m median for car carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9070448 this registry holds 57 other vessels, whose median build year is 1994 and which range from 1992 to 2016. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1994.

Its IMO number, 9070448, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 0×6 + 7×5 + 0×4 + 4×3 + 4×2 = 118 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.