Napier

At 8,665 gross tons, Napier is the 37,863rd 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 1.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 494 reefers held here, it ranks 127th by tonnage — larger than 71% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,893 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 12,345 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (80 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Kitanihon Shipbuilding, with 24 hulls on record.

Bermuda is the country of registry for 177 vessels in this directory, of which Napier is the 144th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (80 ships), and the median vessel measures 77,277 GT. Browse every ship flagged Bermuda.

Napier 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 437th 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 103 vessels to Kleven Verft, with a median tonnage of 5,388 GT, delivered between 1963 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 151.0 m overall, Napier is 22.6 m longer than the 128.4 m median for reefers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9038933 this registry holds 57 other vessels, whose median build year is 1993 and which range from 1991 to 1995. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1994.

Its IMO number, 9038933, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 143 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.