Kampala

Kampala was built in 1947, making it 79 years old. It is one of 69 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,304 GT. Across the whole of the 1940s the registry holds 1,039 vessels, median 4,053 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 13 vessels to Alexander Stephen and Sons, with a median tonnage of 4,354 GT, delivered between 1911 and 1967. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 154.5 m overall, Kampala is 93.5 m longer than the 61.0 m median for passenger vessels on record, with a beam of 20.2 m and a draft of 8.3 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5180867 this registry holds 7 other vessels, whose median build year is 1947 and which range from 1939 to 1955. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1947.

Its IMO number, 5180867, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 1×6 + 8×5 + 0×4 + 8×3 + 6×2 = 117 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.