John Paul K

At 3,037 gross tons, John Paul K is the 51,424th 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 2.0 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,085 multi-purposes held here, it ranks 449th by tonnage — larger than 53% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,998 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 11,901 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Netherlands (170 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is SLKB Komarno – Slovak Shipyard Komárno, with 78 hulls on record.

John Paul K was built in 2002, making it 24 years old. It is one of 1,298 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,563 GT; within it this ship is the 857th 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.

The registry attributes 263 vessels to Ruse Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 2,491 GT, delivered between 1966 and 2011. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 90.3 m overall, John Paul K is within a metre of the 90.0 m median length for multi-purposes on record, with a beam of 15.2 m and a draft of 5.6 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9198642 this registry holds 66 other vessels, whose median build year is 2000 and which range from 1998 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2002.

Its IMO number, 9198642, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 9×5 + 8×4 + 6×3 + 4×2 = 172 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.