At 8,145 gross tons, Nisshin Maru is the 38,591st 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 2,411 fishing vessels held here, it ranks 27th by tonnage — larger than 99% of that group. Their median tonnage is 738 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 2,773 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Russia (797 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Kuznia na Rybalskomu, with 175 hulls on record.
Japan is the country of registry for 2,663 vessels in this directory, of which Nisshin Maru is the 495th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,534 ships), and the median vessel measures 764 GT. Browse every ship flagged Japan.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 61 fishing vessels flying the Japan flag, of which none is larger than Nisshin Maru.
Nisshin Maru was built in 1987, making it 39 years old. It is one of 819 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,937 GT; within it this ship is the 233rd largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 37 vessels to Kanadevia Corporation, with a median tonnage of 16,390 GT, delivered between 1959 and 2001. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 129.6 m overall, Nisshin Maru is 75.6 m longer than the 54.0 m median for fishing vessels on record, with a beam of 19.4 m and a draft of 11.7 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8705292 this registry holds 67 other vessels, whose median build year is 1988 and which range from 1987 to 1994. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1987.
Its IMO number, 8705292, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 7×6 + 0×5 + 5×4 + 2×3 + 9×2 = 142 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.
