Sterling Grace

At 10,721 gross tons, Sterling Grace is the 34,887th 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 1.8 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 579th by tonnage — larger than 90% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,963 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 10,970 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (565 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Cestné a Stavebné Mechanizmy Tisovec, with 137 hulls on record.

Cyprus is the country of registry for 1,418 vessels in this directory, of which Sterling Grace is the 823rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (915 ships), and the median vessel measures 15,666 GT. Browse every ship flagged Cyprus.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 73 general cargos flying the Cyprus flag, of which 15 are larger by tonnage.

Sterling Grace was built in 1969, making it 57 years old. It is one of 814 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 992 GT; within it this ship is the 46th 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.

At 147.0 m overall, Sterling Grace is 46.0 m longer than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7002150 this registry holds 60 other vessels, whose median build year is 1969 and which range from 1938 to 1970. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1969.

Its IMO number, 7002150, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 70 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.