Rhone

At 700 gross tons, Rhone is the 69,830th 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 8.6 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 36 barges held here, it ranks 21st by tonnage — larger than 9% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,483 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 33,130 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (8 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Peene-Werft, with 2 hulls on record.

Rhone was built in 2013, making it 13 years old. It is one of 2,213 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 22,566 GT; within it this ship is the 1,988th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 353 vessels to Damen Shipyards Gorinchem, with a median tonnage of 294 GT, delivered between 1972 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 65.0 m overall, Rhone is 41.7 m shorter than the 106.7 m median for barges on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9656371 this registry holds 55 other vessels, whose median build year is 2013 and which range from 2011 to 2015. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2013.

Its IMO number, 9656371, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 6×6 + 5×5 + 6×4 + 3×3 + 7×2 = 171 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.