At 6,835 gross tons, MV Sewol is the 40,469th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 353rd by tonnage — larger than 60% of that group. Their median tonnage is 3,908 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 25,454 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Japan (241 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with 34 hulls on record.
MV Sewol was built in 1994, making it 32 years old. It is one of 1,047 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 5,680 GT; within it this ship is the 474th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 1 vessels to Hayashikane Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Nagasaki, Japan, with a median tonnage of 6,835 GT, delivered between 1994 and 1994. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 145.6 m overall, MV Sewol is 41.6 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 22.0 m and a draft of 6.3 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9105205 this registry holds 53 other vessels, whose median build year is 1995 and which range from 1994 to 1997. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1994.
Its IMO number, 9105205, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 0×5 + 5×4 + 2×3 + 0×2 = 95 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.
