Sable Express

Denmark is the country of registry for 849 vessels in this directory. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (495 ships), and the median vessel measures 4,678 GT. Browse every ship flagged Denmark.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 495 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Denmark flag.

Sable Express was built in 1977, making it 49 years old. It is one of 1,791 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 5,622 GT. 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.

The registry attributes 35 vessels to Hermann Sürken, with a median tonnage of 1,525 GT, delivered between 1977 and 1993. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 78.9 m overall, Sable Express is 36.1 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 7516876 this registry holds 39 other vessels, whose median build year is 1976 and which range from 1927 to 1979. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1977.

Its IMO number, 7516876, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 5×6 + 1×5 + 6×4 + 8×3 + 7×2 = 146 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.