Skarberg

At 310 gross tons, Skarberg is the 77,726th 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 19 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,411 fishing vessels held here, it ranks 2,019th by tonnage — larger than 12% of that group. Their median tonnage is 738 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 2,773 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Russia (797 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Kuznia na Rybalskomu, with 175 hulls on record.

Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which Skarberg is the 2,240th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,126 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,102 GT. Browse every ship flagged Norway.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 180 fishing vessels flying the Norway flag, of which 143 are larger by tonnage.

Skarberg was built in 2003, making it 23 years old. It is one of 1,383 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,954 GT; within it this ship is the 1,269th 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 24.0 m overall, Skarberg is 30.0 m shorter than the 54.0 m median for fishing vessels on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9028469 this registry holds 23 other vessels, whose median build year is 1994 and which range from 1977 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2003.

Its IMO number, 9028469, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 129 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.