Santos Sailor

At 2,999 gross tons, Santos Sailor is the 51,522nd 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 2.0 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,423 offshore supplys held here, it ranks 433rd by tonnage — larger than 68% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,061 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 4,961 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (283 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is North American Shipbuilding, with 55 hulls on record.

Brazil is the country of registry for 445 vessels in this directory, of which Santos Sailor is the 231st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (296 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,519 GT. Browse every ship flagged Brazil.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 55 offshore supplys flying the Brazil flag, of which 35 are larger by tonnage.

Santos Sailor was built in 2009, making it 17 years old. It is one of 2,834 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,673 GT; within it this ship is the 2,006th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 84.0 m overall, Santos Sailor is 16.9 m longer than the 67.1 m median for offshore supplys on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9530072 this registry holds 62 other vessels, whose median build year is 2010 and which range from 2008 to 2016. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2009.

Its IMO number, 9530072, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 122 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.