At 8,957 gross tons, HMS Glengyle is the 37,481st 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 1.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 617 passenger vessels held here, it ranks 53rd by tonnage — larger than 89% of that group. Their median tonnage is 909 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 9,718 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Egypt (65 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Meyer Werft, with 16 hulls on record.
United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which HMS Glengyle is the 400th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 16 passenger vessels flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.
HMS Glengyle was built in 1940, making it 86 years old. It is one of 45 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 5,141 GT; within it this ship is the 2nd largest. Across the whole of the 1940s the registry holds 1,039 vessels, median 4,053 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 13 vessels to Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, with a median tonnage of 7,324 GT, delivered between 1940 and 1973. See the rest of that yard’s output.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5132004 this registry holds 16 other vessels, whose median build year is 1953 and which range from 1938 to 1962. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1940.
Its IMO number, 5132004, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 1×6 + 3×5 + 2×4 + 0×3 + 0×2 = 64 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
