Manson 47

At 689 gross tons, Manson 47 is the 70,215th 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 8.7 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 255 heavy lifts held here, it ranks 190th by tonnage — larger than 15% of that group. Their median tonnage is 1,670 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 24,484 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Russia (41 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Pella Sietas, with 8 hulls on record.

United States is the country of registry for 2,278 vessels in this directory, of which Manson 47 is the 1,069th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (977 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,706 GT. Browse every ship flagged United States.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 7 heavy lifts flying the United States flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.

Manson 47 was built in 1943, making it 83 years old. It is one of 142 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 5,745 GT; within it this ship is the 41st 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.

At 41.0 m overall, Manson 47 is 39.5 m shorter than the 80.5 m median for heavy lifts on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8756849 this registry holds 45 other vessels, whose median build year is 1979 and which range from 1933 to 1986. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1943.

Its IMO number, 8756849, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 179 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.