SS Empire Fowey

At 19,121 gross tons, SS Empire Fowey is the 27,290th 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 3.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 617 passenger vessels held here, it ranks 14th by tonnage — larger than 97% of that group. Their median tonnage is 909 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 9,718 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Egypt (65 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Meyer Werft, with 16 hulls on record.

SS Empire Fowey was built in 1935, making it 91 years old. It is one of 50 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 448 GT; within it this ship is the 1st largest. Across the whole of the 1930s the registry holds 552 vessels, median 1,138 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 88 vessels to Blohm+Voss, with a median tonnage of 6,876 GT, delivered between 1905 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 193.2 m overall, SS Empire Fowey is 132.2 m longer than the 61.0 m median for passenger vessels on record, with a beam of 22.6 m and a draft of 8.8 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5304891 this registry holds 12 other vessels, whose median build year is 1952 and which range from 1922 to 1960. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1935.

Its IMO number, 5304891, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 3×6 + 0×5 + 4×4 + 8×3 + 9×2 = 111 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.