Sangwon

At 10,913 gross tons, Sangwon is the 34,721st 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 1.8 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 562nd by tonnage — larger than 90% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,963 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 10,970 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (565 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Cestné a Stavebné Mechanizmy Tisovec, with 137 hulls on record.

North Korea is the country of registry for 207 vessels in this directory, of which Sangwon is the 24th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (119 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,522 GT. Browse every ship flagged North Korea.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 59 general cargos flying the North Korea flag, of which none is larger than Sangwon.

Sangwon was built in 1971, making it 55 years old. It is one of 1,927 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,462 GT; within it this ship is the 384th largest. 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.

At 164.0 m overall, Sangwon is 63.0 m longer than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7045695 this registry holds 49 other vessels, whose median build year is 1971 and which range from 1963 to 1971. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1971.

Its IMO number, 7045695, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 125 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.