Violet Ace

At 49,708 gross tons, Violet Ace is the 10,044th 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 8.3 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 234th by tonnage — larger than 50% 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.

The Bahamas is the country of registry for 1,614 vessels in this directory, of which Violet Ace is the 481st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (940 ships), and the median vessel measures 30,020 GT. Browse every ship flagged The Bahamas.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 26 car carriers flying the The Bahamas flag, of which 18 are larger by tonnage.

Violet Ace was built in 2011, making it 15 years old. It is one of 2,848 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 650th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 189.3 m overall, Violet Ace is 4.6 m shorter than the 193.9 m median for car carriers on record, with a beam of 32.3 m and a draft of 9.1 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9395630 this registry holds 79 other vessels, whose median build year is 2008 and which range from 2006 to 2011. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2011.

Its IMO number, 9395630, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 170 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.