John Oldendorff

At 86,201 gross tons, John Oldendorff is the 5,068th 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 14 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 632nd by tonnage — larger than 90% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.

Saint Kitts and Nevis is the country of registry for 545 vessels in this directory, of which John Oldendorff is the 15th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (324 ships), and the median vessel measures 10,964 GT. Browse every ship flagged Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 31 bulk carriers flying the Saint Kitts and Nevis flag, of which 6 are larger by tonnage.

John Oldendorff was built in 2001, making it 25 years old. It is one of 1,268 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 14,062 GT; within it this ship is the 53rd largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 289.0 m overall, John Oldendorff is 99.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record, with a beam of 45.0 m and a draft of 17.6 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9225005 this registry holds 69 other vessels, whose median build year is 2001 and which range from 1998 to 2003. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2001.

Its IMO number, , carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 105 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.