North Star II

At 8,541 gross tons, North Star II is the 38,089th 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 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 21,771st by tonnage — larger than 56% 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.

Honduras is the country of registry for 238 vessels in this directory, of which North Star II is the 19th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (191 ships), and the median vessel measures 885 GT. Browse every ship flagged Honduras.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 191 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Honduras flag, of which 12 are larger by tonnage.

North Star II was built in 1971, making it 55 years old. It is one of 1,927 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,462 GT; within it this ship is the 517th largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 141.0 m overall, North Star II is 26.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7104714 this registry holds 54 other vessels, whose median build year is 1971 and which range from 1970 to 1972. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1971.

Its IMO number, , carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 94 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.