Karl Marx

At 1,157 gross tons, Karl Marx is the 64,503rd 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 5.2 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 4,640th by tonnage — larger than 16% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,963 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 10,970 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (565 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Cestné a Stavebné Mechanizmy Tisovec, with 137 hulls on record.

Angola is the country of registry for 42 vessels in this directory, of which Karl Marx is the 11th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (34 ships), and the median vessel measures 616 GT. Browse every ship flagged Angola.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 2 general cargos flying the Angola flag, of which none is larger than Karl Marx.

Karl Marx was built in 1959, making it 67 years old. It is one of 245 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 517 GT; within it this ship is the 39th largest. Across the whole of the 1950s the registry holds 2,005 vessels, median 960 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 19 vessels to Ganz-Danubius, with a median tonnage of 714 GT, delivered between 1951 and 1968. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 78.8 m overall, Karl Marx is 22.2 m shorter than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5186081 this registry holds 11 other vessels, whose median build year is 1956 and which range from 1910 to 1962. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1959.

Its IMO number, 5186081, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 1×6 + 8×5 + 6×4 + 0×3 + 8×2 = 121 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.