Radium Gilbert

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Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 404 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Canada flag.

Radium Gilbert was built in 1946, making it 80 years old. It is one of 79 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,270 GT. Across the whole of the 1940s the registry holds 1,039 vessels, median 4,053 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 36.6 m overall, Radium Gilbert is 78.4 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 5288891 this registry holds 12 other vessels, whose median build year is 1956 and which range from 1937 to 1965. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1946.

Its IMO number, 5288891, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 2×6 + 8×5 + 8×4 + 8×3 + 9×2 = 161 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.