M-0666 Katran

At 488 gross tons, M-0666 Katran is the 74,305th 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 12 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 41,863rd by tonnage — larger than 16% 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.

Russia is the country of registry for 2,810 vessels in this directory, of which M-0666 Katran is the 2,478th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (830 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,293 GT. Browse every ship flagged Russia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 830 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Russia flag, of which 567 are larger by tonnage.

M-0666 Katran was built in 1986, making it 40 years old. It is one of 866 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,769 GT; within it this ship is the 734th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 48.8 m overall, M-0666 Katran is 66.2 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8727343 this registry holds 36 other vessels, whose median build year is 1986 and which range from 1976 to 1989. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1986.

Its IMO number, , carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 153 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.