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General cargo

Kawachi Maru

IMO 6615637Built 1966

Photo: Wolfgang Fricke · CC BY 3.0 · file

No gross tonnage is recorded for this vessel, so it cannot be ranked by size. Rank is only shown where the underlying measurement exists.

Vessel particulars

Identification and dimensions

Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.

Identification

IMO number: 6615637
IMO check digit: Valid
MMSI
Call sign
Flag state: —
Port of registry: —
Vessel class: —
Status: in service

Construction

Type: General cargo

In context

How Kawachi Maru compares

Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

Kawachi Maru was built in 1966, making it 60 years old. It is one of 440 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 839 GT. Across the whole of the 1960s the registry holds 4,074 vessels, median 844 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 104 vessels to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 21,438 GT, delivered between 1948 and 2020. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 170.9 m overall, Kawachi Maru is 69.9 m longer than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 6615637 this registry holds 4 other vessels, whose median build year is 1966. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1966.

Its IMO number, 6615637, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 6×7 + 6×6 + 1×5 + 5×4 + 6×3 + 3×2 = 127 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.

Nearest by IMO number

Ship	IMO	Built
RFA Sir Galahad

Same yard, same years

Built alongside at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.