At 50,400 gross tons, MV W.B. Yeats is the 9,910th 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 8.4 times 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 5,363rd by tonnage — larger than 89% 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.
Cyprus is the country of registry for 1,418 vessels in this directory, of which MV W.B. Yeats is the 131st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (915 ships), and the median vessel measures 15,666 GT. Browse every ship flagged Cyprus.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 915 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Cyprus flag, of which 86 are larger by tonnage.
MV W.B. Yeats was built in 2018, making it 8 years old. It is one of 1,246 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 18,960 GT; within it this ship is the 274th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 118 vessels to Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, with a median tonnage of 24,046 GT, delivered between 1900 and 2022. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 194.0 m overall, MV W.B. Yeats is 79.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 32.1 m and a draft of 6.7 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9809679 this registry holds 51 other vessels, whose median build year is 2018 and which range from 2016 to 2021. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2018.
Its IMO number, 9809679, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 8×6 + 0×5 + 9×4 + 6×3 + 7×2 = 179 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
