At 346 gross tons, Melderskin is the 77,009th 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 17 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 44,057th by tonnage — larger than 11% 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.
Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which Melderskin is the 2,203rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,126 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,102 GT. Browse every ship flagged Norway.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 2,126 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Norway flag, of which 1,446 are larger by tonnage.
Melderskin was built in 1963, making it 63 years old. It is one of 270 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,002 GT; within it this ship is the 102nd 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 55 vessels to Ankerløkken Verft, with a median tonnage of 18,994 GT, delivered between 1957 and 2009. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 35.1 m overall, Melderskin is 79.9 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 8874548 this registry holds 31 other vessels, whose median build year is 1984 and which range from 1957 to 1995. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1963.
Its IMO number, 8874548, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 8×6 + 7×5 + 4×4 + 5×3 + 4×2 = 178 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.
