St. Augustine of Hippo

At 2,778 gross tons, St. Augustine of Hippo is the 53,363rd 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 2.2 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 877 ro-ros held here, it ranks 530th by tonnage — larger than 34% of that group. Their median tonnage is 7,395 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 34,011 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Italy (62 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, with 16 hulls on record.

Japan is the country of registry for 2,663 vessels in this directory, of which St. Augustine of Hippo is the 855th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,534 ships), and the median vessel measures 764 GT. Browse every ship flagged Japan.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 27 ro-ros flying the Japan flag, of which 10 are larger by tonnage.

St. Augustine of Hippo was built in 1989, making it 37 years old. It is one of 1,131 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,938 GT; within it this ship is the 471st 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 92.0 m overall, St. Augustine of Hippo is 33.0 m shorter than the 125.0 m median for ro-ros on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8815530 this registry holds 35 other vessels, whose median build year is 1989 and which range from 1988 to 1990. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1989.

Its IMO number, 8815530, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 8×6 + 1×5 + 5×4 + 5×3 + 3×2 = 150 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.