Taklift 7

At 3,343 gross tons, Taklift 7 is the 50,415th 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 smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 255 heavy lifts held here, it ranks 93rd by tonnage — larger than 59% of that group. Their median tonnage is 1,670 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 24,484 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Russia (41 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Pella Sietas, with 8 hulls on record.

Singapore is the country of registry for 2,873 vessels in this directory, of which Taklift 7 is the 2,256th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,799 ships), and the median vessel measures 20,927 GT. Browse every ship flagged Singapore.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 3 heavy lifts flying the Singapore flag, of which none is larger than Taklift 7.

Taklift 7 was built in 1977, making it 49 years old. It is one of 1,791 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 5,622 GT; within it this ship is the 910th largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 210 vessels to Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, with a median tonnage of 30,285 GT, delivered between 1905 and 2010. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 72.0 m overall, Taklift 7 is 8.5 m shorter than the 80.5 m median for heavy lifts on record and a draft of 4.5 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7829273 this registry holds 16 other vessels, whose median build year is 1978 and which range from 1906 to 1979. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1977.

Its IMO number, 7829273, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 8×6 + 2×5 + 9×4 + 2×3 + 7×2 = 163 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.