Medon

At 2,481 gross tons, Medon is the 54,927th 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 2.4 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,085 multi-purposes held here, it ranks 619th by tonnage — larger than 35% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,998 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 11,901 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Netherlands (170 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is SLKB Komarno – Slovak Shipyard Komárno, with 78 hulls on record.

Medon was built in 1968, making it 58 years old. It is one of 536 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 769 GT; within it this ship is the 85th largest. Across the whole of the 1960s the registry holds 4,074 vessels, median 844 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 196 vessels to Krasnoye Sormovo Factory No. 112, with a median tonnage of 4,681 GT, delivered between 1956 and 2022. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 114.2 m overall, Medon is 24.2 m longer than the 90.0 m median for multi-purposes on record, with a beam of 13.2 m and a draft of 3.8 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7008609 this registry holds 31 other vessels, whose median build year is 1969 and which range from 1968 to 1970. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1968.

Its IMO number, 7008609, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 0×6 + 0×5 + 8×4 + 6×3 + 0×2 = 99 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.