MS Ruahine

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MS Ruahine was built in 1951, making it 75 years old. It is one of 151 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 722 GT. Across the whole of the 1950s the registry holds 2,005 vessels, median 960 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 27 vessels to John Brown & Company, with a median tonnage of 21,370 GT, delivered between 1936 and 2013. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 178.2 m overall, MS Ruahine is 63.2 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 22.9 m and a draft of 9.1 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5301564 this registry holds 20 other vessels, whose median build year is 1954 and which range from 1923 to 1960. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1951.

Its IMO number, 5301564, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 3×6 + 0×5 + 1×4 + 5×3 + 6×2 = 84 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.