RV Farley Mowat

At 677 gross tons, RV Farley Mowat is the 70,441st 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 8.9 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 612 research / surveys held here, it ranks 391st by tonnage — larger than 19% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,180 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 9,452 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (90 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Wärtsilä, with 36 hulls on record.

Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which RV Farley Mowat is the 1,930th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,126 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,102 GT. Browse every ship flagged Norway.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 29 research / surveys flying the Norway flag, of which 23 are larger by tonnage.

RV Farley Mowat was built in 1957, making it 69 years old. It is one of 261 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,300 GT; within it this ship is the 61st largest. Across the whole of the 1950s the registry holds 2,005 vessels, median 960 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 60 vessels to Mjellem & Karlsen Verft, with a median tonnage of 930 GT, delivered between 1907 and 2002. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 52.4 m overall, RV Farley Mowat is 18.6 m shorter than the 71.0 m median for research / surveys on record, with a beam of 9.3 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5172602 this registry holds 11 other vessels, whose median build year is 1952 and which range from 1907 to 1963. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1957.

Its IMO number, 5172602, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 1×6 + 7×5 + 2×4 + 6×3 + 0×2 = 102 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.