Kuroshio

At 15,983 gross tons, Kuroshio is the 30,138th 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 2.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,423 offshore supplys held here, it ranks 32nd by tonnage — larger than 98% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,061 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 4,961 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (283 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is North American Shipbuilding, with 55 hulls on record.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Kuroshio is the 5,148th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 69 offshore supplys flying the Panama flag, of which 7 are larger by tonnage.

Kuroshio was built in 1972, making it 54 years old. It is one of 1,928 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,016 GT; within it this ship is the 300th largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 142.0 m overall, Kuroshio is 74.9 m longer than the 67.1 m median for offshore supplys on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8757324 this registry holds 29 other vessels, whose median build year is 1974 and which range from 1933 to 1985. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1972.

Its IMO number, 8757324, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 164 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.