Tikeibank

At 18,663 gross tons, Tikeibank is the 27,511th 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 3.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 877 ro-ros held here, it ranks 209th by tonnage — larger than 74% 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.

Antigua and Barbuda is the country of registry for 734 vessels in this directory, of which Tikeibank is the 50th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (372 ships), and the median vessel measures 6,351 GT. Browse every ship flagged Antigua and Barbuda.

Tikeibank was built in 1983, making it 43 years old. It is one of 1,578 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,112 GT; within it this ship is the 290th 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.

The registry attributes 37 vessels to Valmet, with a median tonnage of 18,574 GT, delivered between 1952 and 1986. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 173.0 m overall, Tikeibank is 48.0 m longer than the 125.0 m median for ro-ros on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8013089 this registry holds 51 other vessels, whose median build year is 1982 and which range from 1980 to 1985. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1983.

Its IMO number, 8013089, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 89 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.