Melkart 5

At 1,598 gross tons, Melkart 5 is the 60,705th 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 3.8 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,411 fishing vessels held here, it ranks 482nd by tonnage — larger than 79% of that group. Their median tonnage is 738 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 2,773 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Russia (797 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Kuznia na Rybalskomu, with 175 hulls on record.

Russia is the country of registry for 2,810 vessels in this directory, of which Melkart 5 is the 1,583rd 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 797 fishing vessels flying the Russia flag, of which 189 are larger by tonnage.

Melkart 5 was built in 1996, making it 30 years old. It is one of 1,254 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,254 GT; within it this ship is the 960th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 67 vessels to Søviknes Verft, with a median tonnage of 3,160 GT, delivered between 1956 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 53.0 m overall, Melkart 5 is 1.0 m shorter than the 54.0 m median for fishing vessels on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9130183 this registry holds 55 other vessels, whose median build year is 1997 and which range from 1995 to 1999. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.