Uthlande

At 1,734 gross tons, Uthlande is the 59,640th 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 3.5 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 877 ro-ros held here, it ranks 571st by tonnage — larger than 29% 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.

Germany is the country of registry for 885 vessels in this directory, of which Uthlande is the 284th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (446 ships), and the median vessel measures 916 GT. Browse every ship flagged Germany.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 12 ro-ros flying the Germany flag, of which 5 are larger by tonnage.

Uthlande was built in 1980, making it 46 years old. It is one of 1,736 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,301 GT; within it this ship is the 829th 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 68 vessels to Husumer Schiffswerft, with a median tonnage of 1,132 GT, delivered between 1953 and 2001. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 57.9 m overall, Uthlande is 67.1 m shorter than the 125.0 m median for ro-ros on record, with a beam of 12.8 m and a draft of 1.7 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7909619 this registry holds 46 other vessels, whose median build year is 1980 and which range from 1978 to 1982. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1980.

Its IMO number, 7909619, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 9×6 + 0×5 + 9×4 + 6×3 + 1×2 = 159 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.