MSC Eagle

At 28,078 gross tons, MSC Eagle is the 21,120th 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 4.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 2,022nd by tonnage — larger than 45% of that group. Their median tonnage is 33,698 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 140,096 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Liberia (498 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, with 348 hulls on record.

MSC Eagle was built in 1978, making it 48 years old. It is one of 1,698 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,556 GT; within it this ship is the 124th 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.

The registry attributes 175 vessels to Gdańsk Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 9,899 GT, delivered between 1930 and 2014. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 204.0 m overall, MSC Eagle is 17.6 m shorter than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7711555 this registry holds 48 other vessels, whose median build year is 1978 and which range from 1977 to 1983. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1978.

Its IMO number, 7711555, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 7×6 + 1×5 + 1×4 + 5×3 + 5×2 = 125 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.