At 2,999 gross tons, Wilson Clyde is the 51,522nd 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 2.0 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,085 multi-purposes held here, it ranks 451st by tonnage — larger than 50% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,998 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 11,901 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Netherlands (170 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is SLKB Komarno – Slovak Shipyard Komárno, with 78 hulls on record.
Barbados is the country of registry for 215 vessels in this directory, of which Wilson Clyde is the 113th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (85 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,937 GT. Browse every ship flagged Barbados.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 72 multi-purposes flying the Barbados flag, of which 11 are larger by tonnage.
Wilson Clyde was built in 1998, making it 28 years old. It is one of 1,367 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,381 GT; within it this ship is the 872nd largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 187 vessels to SLKB Komarno – Slovak Shipyard Komárno, with a median tonnage of 2,452 GT, delivered between 1962 and 2012. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 99.9 m overall, Wilson Clyde is 9.9 m longer than the 90.0 m median for multi-purposes on record, with a beam of 12.8 m and a draft of 5.7 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9178458 this registry holds 63 other vessels, whose median build year is 1998 and which range from 1997 to 2006. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1998.
Its IMO number, 9178458, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 7×5 + 8×4 + 4×3 + 5×2 = 158 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.
