Manu Folau

At 582 gross tons, Manu Folau is the 72,082nd 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 10 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 617 passenger vessels held here, it ranks 327th by tonnage — larger than 33% of that group. Their median tonnage is 909 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 9,718 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Egypt (65 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Meyer Werft, with 16 hulls on record.

Tuvalu is the country of registry for 239 vessels in this directory, of which Manu Folau is the 225th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (115 ships), and the median vessel measures 8,517 GT. Browse every ship flagged Tuvalu.

Manu Folau was built in 2002, making it 24 years old. It is one of 1,298 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,563 GT; within it this ship is the 1,105th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 46.0 m overall, Manu Folau is 15.0 m shorter than the 61.0 m median for passenger vessels on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9258272 this registry holds 64 other vessels, whose median build year is 2002 and which range from 2001 to 2004. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2002.

Its IMO number, 9258272, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 5×5 + 8×4 + 2×3 + 7×2 = 152 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.