At 720 gross tons, Yūshin Maru is the 69,496th 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 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 38,996th by tonnage — larger than 22% 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.
Japan is the country of registry for 2,663 vessels in this directory, of which Yūshin Maru is the 1,431st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,534 ships), and the median vessel measures 764 GT. Browse every ship flagged Japan.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,534 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Japan flag, of which 614 are larger by tonnage.
Yūshin Maru 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 1,125th 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 1 vessels to Hakata Zosen, Hakata, with a median tonnage of 720 GT, delivered between 1998 and 1998. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 69.6 m overall, Yūshin Maru is 45.4 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 11.5 m and a draft of 4.3 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9197181 this registry holds 76 other vessels, whose median build year is 2000 and which range from 1998 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1998.
Its IMO number, 9197181, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 9×5 + 7×4 + 1×3 + 8×2 = 161 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.
