MV Mendocino

At 473 gross tons, MV Mendocino is the 74,644th 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 13 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 42,144th by tonnage — larger than 15% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

United States is the country of registry for 2,278 vessels in this directory, of which MV Mendocino is the 1,218th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (977 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,706 GT. Browse every ship flagged United States.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 977 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the United States flag, of which 403 are larger by tonnage.

MV Mendocino was built in 2001, making it 25 years old. It is one of 1,268 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 14,062 GT; within it this ship is the 1,093rd 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.

At 43.0 m overall, MV Mendocino is 72.0 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 34.0 m and a draft of 4.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8967656 this registry holds 20 other vessels, whose median build year is 2000 and which range from 1958 to 2001. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2001.

Its IMO number, 8967656, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 9×6 + 6×5 + 7×4 + 6×3 + 5×2 = 196 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.