Lasia

At 6,482 gross tons, Lasia is the 41,060th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 1,271st by tonnage — larger than 77% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,963 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 10,970 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (565 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Cestné a Stavebné Mechanizmy Tisovec, with 137 hulls on record.

Lasia was built in 1948, making it 78 years old. It is one of 123 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,126 GT; within it this ship is the 9th largest. Across the whole of the 1940s the registry holds 1,039 vessels, median 4,053 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 19 vessels to Nederlandsche Dok en Scheepsbouw Maatschappij, with a median tonnage of 7,546 GT, delivered between 1937 and 1963. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 145.1 m overall, Lasia is 44.1 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 5408099 this registry holds 10 other vessels, whose median build year is 1962 and which range from 1910 to 1963. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1948.

Its IMO number, 5408099, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 4×6 + 0×5 + 8×4 + 0×3 + 9×2 = 109 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.