Uruguay

At 12,627 gross tons, Uruguay is the 32,785th 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 2.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 617 passenger vessels held here, it ranks 37th 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.

Uruguay was built in 1950, making it 76 years old. It is one of 153 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 555 GT; within it this ship is the 3rd largest. Across the whole of the 1950s the registry holds 2,005 vessels, median 960 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 21 vessels to Vickers-Armstrongs, with a median tonnage of 12,653 GT, delivered between 1931 and 2010. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 161.0 m overall, Uruguay is 100.0 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 5374509 this registry holds 12 other vessels, whose median build year is 1950 and which range from 1918 to 1959. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1950.

Its IMO number, 5374509, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 3×6 + 7×5 + 4×4 + 5×3 + 0×2 = 119 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.