Ocean Flower

At 445 gross tons, Ocean Flower is the 75,165th 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 13 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 757th by tonnage — larger than 14% of that group. Their median tonnage is 3,908 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 25,454 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Japan (241 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with 34 hulls on record.

South Korea is the country of registry for 1,392 vessels in this directory, of which Ocean Flower is the 1,202nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (722 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,716 GT. Browse every ship flagged South Korea.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 3 ferrys flying the South Korea flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.

Ocean Flower was built in 2001, making it 25 years old. It is one of 1,268 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 14,062 GT; within it this ship is the 1,100th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 52.0 m overall, Ocean Flower is 52.0 m shorter than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9248007 this registry holds 64 other vessels, whose median build year is 2002 and which range from 2001 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2001.

Its IMO number, 9248007, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 4×5 + 8×4 + 0×3 + 0×2 = 127 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.