Kirkella

At 4,113 gross tons, Kirkella is the 47,229th 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 1.5 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,411 fishing vessels held here, it ranks 116th by tonnage — larger than 95% of that group. Their median tonnage is 738 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 2,773 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Russia (797 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Kuznia na Rybalskomu, with 175 hulls on record.

Kirkella was built in 2018, making it 8 years old. It is one of 1,246 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 18,960 GT; within it this ship is the 873rd largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 50 vessels to Myklebust Verft, with a median tonnage of 3,650 GT, delivered between 1979 and 2022. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 81.2 m overall, Kirkella is 27.2 m longer than the 54.0 m median for fishing vessels on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9808405 this registry holds 40 other vessels, whose median build year is 2017 and which range from 2016 to 2020. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2018.

Its IMO number, 9808405, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 8×6 + 0×5 + 8×4 + 4×3 + 0×2 = 155 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.