Michele Giacalone

At 149 gross tons, Michele Giacalone is the 82,300th 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 40 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 48,382nd by tonnage — larger than 3% 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.

Italy is the country of registry for 918 vessels in this directory, of which Michele Giacalone is the 821st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (488 ships), and the median vessel measures 4,975 GT. Browse every ship flagged Italy.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 488 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Italy flag, of which 434 are larger by tonnage.

Michele Giacalone was built in 1979, making it 47 years old. It is one of 1,718 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,382 GT; within it this ship is the 1,426th largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 32.0 m overall, Michele Giacalone is 83.0 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 7811288 this registry holds 39 other vessels, whose median build year is 1979 and which range from 1972 to 1982. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1979.