Ever General

Ever General was built in 1987, making it 39 years old. It is one of 819 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,937 GT. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 213 vessels to Onomichi Dockyard, with a median tonnage of 28,520 GT, delivered between 1963 and 2023. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 269.7 m overall, Ever General is 48.1 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8511756 this registry holds 35 other vessels, whose median build year is 1986 and which range from 1985 to 1997. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1987.

Its IMO number, 8511756, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 5×6 + 1×5 + 1×4 + 7×3 + 5×2 = 126 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.