Chang Rong 3

At 675 gross tons, Chang Rong 3 is the 70,495th 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 8.9 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,411 fishing vessels held here, it ranks 1,324th by tonnage — larger than 42% of that group. Their median tonnage is 738 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 2,773 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Russia (797 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Kuznia na Rybalskomu, with 175 hulls on record.

People's Republic of China is the country of registry for 3,427 vessels in this directory, of which Chang Rong 3 is the 3,180th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,851 ships), and the median vessel measures 10,532 GT. Browse every ship flagged People's Republic of China.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 33 fishing vessels flying the People's Republic of China flag, of which 17 are larger by tonnage.

Chang Rong 3 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 1,137th 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.

At 50.0 m overall, Chang Rong 3 is 4.0 m shorter than the 54.0 m median for fishing vessels on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8947204 this registry holds 44 other vessels, whose median build year is 1997 and which range from 1924 to 1999. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1998.

Its IMO number, 8947204, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 164 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.