United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,835 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the United Kingdom flag.
MV Eigg was built in 1975, making it 51 years old. It is one of 1,913 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,929 GT. 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 25.2 m overall, MV Eigg is 89.8 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 7340411 this registry holds 30 other vessels, whose median build year is 1974 and which range from 1973 to 1976. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1975.
Its IMO number, 7340411, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 3×6 + 4×5 + 0×4 + 4×3 + 1×2 = 101 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.
