MSC Lucy

At 89,954 gross tons, MSC Lucy is the 4,692nd 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 15 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 756th by tonnage — larger than 80% 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 Lucy was built in 2005, making it 21 years old. It is one of 1,690 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,046 GT; within it this ship is the 97th 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 256 vessels to HJ Shipbuilding & Construction, with a median tonnage of 50,243 GT, delivered between 1974 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 324.9 m overall, MSC Lucy is 103.3 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record and a draft of 14.5 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9289104 this registry holds 67 other vessels, whose median build year is 2005 and which range from 2003 to 2006. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2005.

Its IMO number, 9289104, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 8×5 + 9×4 + 1×3 + 0×2 = 154 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.