Melusine

At 23,987 gross tons, Melusine is the 23,735th 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 4.0 times 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 13,242nd by tonnage — larger than 73% 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.

Belgium is the country of registry for 258 vessels in this directory, of which Melusine is the 53rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (191 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,462 GT. Browse every ship flagged Belgium.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 191 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Belgium flag, of which 38 are larger by tonnage.

Melusine was built in 1999, making it 27 years old. It is one of 1,252 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,594 GT; within it this ship is the 366th 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.

At 162.5 m overall, Melusine is 47.5 m longer 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 9166637 this registry holds 60 other vessels, whose median build year is 1998 and which range from 1997 to 2001. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1999.

Its IMO number, 9166637, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 147 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.