P. T. Barnum

At 3,743 gross tons, P. T. Barnum is the 48,866th 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 1.6 times smaller than 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 27,878th by tonnage — larger than 44% 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.

United States is the country of registry for 2,278 vessels in this directory, of which P. T. Barnum is the 491st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (977 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,706 GT. Browse every ship flagged United States.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 977 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the United States flag, of which 173 are larger by tonnage.

P. T. Barnum was built in 1999, making it 27 years old. It is one of 1,252 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,594 GT; within it this ship is the 784th 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 37 vessels to Eastern Shipbuilding Group, with a median tonnage of 1,348 GT, delivered between 1982 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 88.5 m overall, P. T. Barnum is 26.5 m shorter 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 8654285 this registry holds 7 other vessels, whose median build year is 1975 and which range from 1945 to 2011. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1999.

Its IMO number, 8654285, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 6×6 + 5×5 + 4×4 + 2×3 + 8×2 = 155 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.