Lychee Queen

At 4,872 gross tons, Lychee Queen is the 44,933rd 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 1.2 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 25,669th by tonnage — larger than 48% 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.

Liberia is the country of registry for 4,741 vessels in this directory, of which Lychee Queen is the 4,410th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,739 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,983 GT. Browse every ship flagged Liberia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 2,739 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Liberia flag, of which 2,569 are larger by tonnage.

Lychee Queen was built in 1974, making it 52 years old. It is one of 2,111 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,681 GT; within it this ship is the 704th 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.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7381350 this registry holds 70 other vessels, whose median build year is 1975 and which range from 1973 to 1979. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1974.

Its IMO number, 7381350, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 = 130 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.