At 2,546 gross tons, Mellum is the 54,483rd 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 593rd by tonnage — larger than 38% 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.
Germany is the country of registry for 885 vessels in this directory, of which Mellum is the 234th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (446 ships), and the median vessel measures 916 GT. Browse every ship flagged Germany.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 20 multi-purposes flying the Germany flag, of which 4 are larger by tonnage.
Mellum was built in 1984, making it 42 years old. It is one of 1,492 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,366 GT; within it this ship is the 910th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 23 vessels to Elsfleth Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 1,320 GT, delivered between 1933 and 1994. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 79.6 m overall, Mellum is 10.4 m shorter than the 90.0 m median for multi-purposes on record, with a beam of 15.1 m and a draft of 5.8 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8301981 this registry holds 55 other vessels, whose median build year is 1986 and which range from 1983 to 1993. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1984.
Its IMO number, 8301981, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 3×6 + 0×5 + 1×4 + 9×3 + 8×2 = 121 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.
