SLNS Sayurala

At 1,247 gross tons, SLNS Sayurala is the 63,698th 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 4.8 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 35,954th by tonnage — larger than 28% 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.

SLNS Sayurala was built in 2008, making it 18 years old. It is one of 2,764 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,971 GT; within it this ship is the 2,321st 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.

The registry attributes 12 vessels to Hindustan Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 1,247 GT, delivered between 1967 and 2010. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 74.1 m overall, SLNS Sayurala is 40.9 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 8713938 this registry holds 56 other vessels, whose median build year is 1988 and which range from 1987 to 2008. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2008.

Its IMO number, 8713938, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 7×6 + 1×5 + 3×4 + 9×3 + 3×2 = 148 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.