Lu Hai 1

At 2,770 gross tons, Lu Hai 1 is the 53,406th 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 2.2 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 30,354th by tonnage — larger than 39% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

People's Republic of China is the country of registry for 3,427 vessels in this directory, of which Lu Hai 1 is the 2,543rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,851 ships), and the median vessel measures 10,532 GT. Browse every ship flagged People's Republic of China.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,851 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the People's Republic of China flag, of which 1,268 are larger by tonnage.

Lu Hai 1 was built in 1959, making it 67 years old. It is one of 245 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 517 GT; within it this ship is the 29th largest. Across the whole of the 1950s the registry holds 2,005 vessels, median 960 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8426664 this registry holds 35 other vessels, whose median build year is 1977 and which range from 1956 to 1983. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1959.

Its IMO number, 8426664, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 144 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.