Morning Caroline

At 60,876 gross tons, Morning Caroline is the 7,864th 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 10 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 85th by tonnage — larger than 81% of that group. Their median tonnage is 49,792 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 68,871 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (132 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Shin Kurushima Dockyard, with 41 hulls on record.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Morning Caroline is the 1,081st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 132 car carriers flying the Panama flag, of which 13 are larger by tonnage.

Morning Caroline was built in 2008, making it 18 years old. It is one of 2,764 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,971 GT; within it this ship is the 262nd largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 337 vessels to Imabari Shipbuilding Marugame Headquarters, with a median tonnage of 39,738 GT, delivered between 1977 and 2023. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 199.9 m overall, Morning Caroline is 6.0 m longer than the 193.9 m median for car carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9338723 this registry holds 65 other vessels, whose median build year is 2007 and which range from 2004 to 2009. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2008.

Its IMO number, 9338723, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 3×5 + 8×4 + 7×3 + 2×2 = 153 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.