Kydon

At 29,991 gross tons, Kydon is the 19,480th 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 5.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 60th by tonnage — larger than 93% of that group. Their median tonnage is 3,908 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 25,454 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Japan (241 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with 34 hulls on record.

Greece is the country of registry for 1,164 vessels in this directory, of which Kydon is the 524th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (835 ships), and the median vessel measures 29,858 GT. Browse every ship flagged Greece.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 26 ferrys flying the Greece flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.

Kydon was built in 1990, making it 36 years old. It is one of 1,306 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,025 GT; within it this ship is the 166th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 2 vessels to Mitsubishi, with a median tonnage of 45,102 GT, delivered between 1990 and 2008. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 192.0 m overall, Kydon is 88.0 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 27.0 m and a draft of 6.7 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8916607 this registry holds 52 other vessels, whose median build year is 1990 and which range from 1989 to 1996. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1990.

Its IMO number, 8916607, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 9×6 + 1×5 + 6×4 + 6×3 + 0×2 = 157 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.