Shira

At 249 gross tons, Shira is the 79,547th 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 24 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 46,168th by tonnage — larger than 7% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

Israel is the country of registry for 25 vessels in this directory, of which Shira is the 21st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (16 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,194 GT. Browse every ship flagged Israel.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 16 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Israel flag, of which 13 are larger by tonnage.

Shira was built in 1988, making it 38 years old. It is one of 920 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,512 GT; within it this ship is the 792nd largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 28.5 m overall, Shira is 86.5 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 8705280 this registry holds 67 other vessels, whose median build year is 1988 and which range from 1987 to 1994. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1988.

Its IMO number, 8705280, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 140 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.