Tortugas

At 61,321 gross tons, Tortugas is the 7,794th 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 10 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 80th by tonnage — larger than 83% of that group. Their median tonnage is 49,792 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 68,871 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (132 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Shin Kurushima Dockyard, with 41 hulls on record.

Malta is the country of registry for 2,640 vessels in this directory, of which Tortugas is the 425th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,614 ships), and the median vessel measures 23,204 GT. Browse every ship flagged Malta.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 15 car carriers flying the Malta flag, of which 7 are larger by tonnage.

Tortugas was built in 2006, making it 20 years old. It is one of 2,118 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,539 GT; within it this ship is the 240th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 117 vessels to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery, with a median tonnage of 61,321 GT, delivered between 1955 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 200.0 m overall, Tortugas is 6.1 m longer than the 193.9 m median for car carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9319765 this registry holds 68 other vessels, whose median build year is 2006 and which range from 2003 to 2008. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2006.

Its IMO number, 9319765, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 1×5 + 9×4 + 7×3 + 6×2 = 155 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.