Sigurður VE 15

At 1,228 gross tons, Sigurður VE 15 is the 63,853rd 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 4.9 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 36,037th by tonnage — larger than 27% 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.

Iceland is the country of registry for 136 vessels in this directory, of which Sigurður VE 15 is the 39th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (113 ships), and the median vessel measures 755 GT. Browse every ship flagged Iceland.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 113 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Iceland flag, of which 27 are larger by tonnage.

Sigurður VE 15 was built in 1960, making it 66 years old. It is one of 315 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 530 GT; within it this ship is the 48th largest. Across the whole of the 1960s the registry holds 4,074 vessels, median 844 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 57 vessels to AG Weser, with a median tonnage of 10,552 GT, delivered between 1906 and 1981. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 72.5 m overall, Sigurður VE 15 is 42.5 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 5327635 this registry holds 15 other vessels, whose median build year is 1951 and which range from 1915 to 1962. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1960.

Its IMO number, 5327635, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 3×6 + 2×5 + 7×4 + 6×3 + 3×2 = 115 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.