Vatoula

At 498 gross tons, Vatoula is the 73,579th 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 12 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 41,239th by tonnage — larger than 17% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

Vatoula was built in 1957, making it 69 years old. It is one of 261 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,300 GT; within it this ship is the 78th 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 533 vessels to Pella Sietas, with a median tonnage of 3,999 GT, delivered between 1914 and 2020. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 57.0 m overall, Vatoula is 58.0 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5403922 this registry holds 6 other vessels, whose median build year is 1963 and which range from 1957 to 1963. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1957.

Its IMO number, 5403922, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 4×6 + 0×5 + 3×4 + 9×3 + 2×2 = 102 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.