Mercator II

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Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 446 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Germany flag.

Mercator II was built in 1965, making it 61 years old. It is one of 378 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 695 GT. 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 60 vessels to Howaldtswerke Hamburg, with a median tonnage of 9,596 GT, delivered between 1937 and 1980. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 109.6 m overall, Mercator II is 5.4 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 15.0 m and a draft of 4.1 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 6510887 this registry holds 19 other vessels, whose median build year is 1965 and which range from 1944 to 1965. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1965.

Its IMO number, 6510887, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 6×7 + 5×6 + 1×5 + 0×4 + 8×3 + 8×2 = 117 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.