Swaraj Dweep

At 14,239 gross tons, Swaraj Dweep is the 31,511th 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 2.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 617 passenger vessels held here, it ranks 33rd by tonnage — larger than 93% 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.

India is the country of registry for 968 vessels in this directory, of which Swaraj Dweep is the 304th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (514 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,306 GT. Browse every ship flagged India.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 16 passenger vessels flying the India flag, of which none is larger than Swaraj Dweep.

Swaraj Dweep was built in 1999, making it 27 years old. It is one of 1,252 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,594 GT; within it this ship is the 489th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 156.0 m overall, Swaraj Dweep is 95.0 m longer than the 61.0 m median for passenger vessels on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9101168 this registry holds 43 other vessels, whose median build year is 1995 and which range from 1993 to 1999. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1999.

Its IMO number, 9101168, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 88 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.