Nahshon

Greece is the country of registry for 1,164 vessels in this directory. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (835 ships), and the median vessel measures 29,858 GT. Browse every ship flagged Greece.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 31 general cargos flying the Greece flag.

Nahshon was built in 1955, making it 71 years old. It is one of 201 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,864 GT. Across the whole of the 1950s the registry holds 2,005 vessels, median 960 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 4 vessels to August Pahl, with a median tonnage of 498 GT, delivered between 1951 and 1968. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 99.4 m overall, Nahshon is 1.6 m shorter than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5290753 this registry holds 15 other vessels, whose median build year is 1953 and which range from 1900 to 1960. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1955.

Its IMO number, 5290753, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 2×6 + 9×5 + 0×4 + 7×3 + 5×2 = 123 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.