Quanta Iroquois

At 10,696 gross tons, Quanta Iroquois is the 34,899th 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 1.8 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,423 offshore supplys held here, it ranks 58th by tonnage — larger than 96% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,061 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 4,961 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (283 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is North American Shipbuilding, with 55 hulls on record.

Vanuatu is the country of registry for 425 vessels in this directory, of which Quanta Iroquois is the 66th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (208 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,446 GT. Browse every ship flagged Vanuatu.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 74 offshore supplys flying the Vanuatu flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.

Quanta Iroquois was built in 1973, making it 53 years old. It is one of 2,097 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,435 GT; within it this ship is the 474th 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 121.0 m overall, Quanta Iroquois is 53.9 m longer than the 67.1 m median for offshore supplys on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8758287 this registry holds 28 other vessels, whose median build year is 1975 and which range from 1929 to 1987. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1973.

Its IMO number, 8758287, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 177 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.