Rising Harrier

At 27,681 gross tons, Rising Harrier is the 21,402nd 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 4.6 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 3,895th by tonnage — larger than 40% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is the country of registry for 561 vessels in this directory, of which Rising Harrier is the 29th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (233 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,406 GT. Browse every ship flagged Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 34 bulk carriers flying the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines flag, of which 9 are larger by tonnage.

Rising Harrier was built in 1997, making it 29 years old. It is one of 1,319 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,388 GT; within it this ship is the 296th 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.

At 190.0 m overall, Rising Harrier is within a metre of the 190.0 m median length for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9122291 this registry holds 64 other vessels, whose median build year is 1996 and which range from 1993 to 1998. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1997.

Its IMO number, , carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 111 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.