Channel Dragon

At 52,505 gross tons, Channel Dragon is the 9,338th 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 8.8 times 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 5,103rd by tonnage — larger than 90% 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.

Indonesia is the country of registry for 2,700 vessels in this directory, of which Channel Dragon is the 43rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,484 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,078 GT. Browse every ship flagged Indonesia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,484 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Indonesia flag, of which 19 are larger by tonnage.

Channel Dragon was built in 1990, making it 36 years old. It is one of 1,306 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,025 GT; within it this ship is the 73rd 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 161 vessels to Sumitomo Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 51,956 GT, delivered between 1959 and 2022. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 232.0 m overall, Channel Dragon is 117.0 m longer 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 8818946 this registry holds 44 other vessels, whose median build year is 1990 and which range from 1988 to 1992. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1990.

Its IMO number, 8818946, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 8×6 + 1×5 + 8×4 + 9×3 + 4×2 = 176 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.