Jabal Ali 3

At 7,291 gross tons, Jabal Ali 3 is the 39,794th 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 1.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 877 ro-ros held here, it ranks 404th by tonnage — larger than 50% of that group. Their median tonnage is 7,395 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 34,011 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Italy (62 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, with 16 hulls on record.

Sierra Leone is the country of registry for 531 vessels in this directory, of which Jabal Ali 3 is the 102nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (251 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,987 GT. Browse every ship flagged Sierra Leone.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 8 ro-ros flying the Sierra Leone flag, of which none is larger than Jabal Ali 3.

Jabal Ali 3 was built in 1971, making it 55 years old. It is one of 1,927 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,462 GT; within it this ship is the 544th 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.

At 129.0 m overall, Jabal Ali 3 is 4.0 m longer than the 125.0 m median for ro-ros on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7053240 this registry holds 38 other vessels, whose median build year is 1971 and which range from 1969 to 1972. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1971.

Its IMO number, 7053240, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 100 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.