Lady Rodney

At 8,252 gross tons, Lady Rodney is the 38,484th 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 1.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 617 passenger vessels held here, it ranks 57th by tonnage — larger than 89% of that group. Their median tonnage is 909 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 9,718 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Egypt (65 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Meyer Werft, with 16 hulls on record.

Lady Rodney was built in 1929, making it 97 years old. It is one of 66 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,456 GT; within it this ship is the 3rd largest. Across the whole of the 1920s the registry holds 516 vessels, median 2,350 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 51 vessels to Cammell Laird, with a median tonnage of 4,791 GT, delivered between 1913 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 128.1 m overall, Lady Rodney is 67.1 m longer than the 61.0 m median for passenger vessels on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5230430 this registry holds 6 other vessels, whose median build year is 1929 and which range from 1928 to 1944. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1929.

Its IMO number, 5230430, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 2×6 + 3×5 + 0×4 + 4×3 + 3×2 = 80 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.