At 928 gross tons, 滋賀県立びわ湖フローティングスクール is the 66,815th 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 6.5 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 37,667th by tonnage — larger than 24% 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 滋賀県立びわ湖フローティングスクール is the 1,245th 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 582 are larger by tonnage.
滋賀県立びわ湖フローティングスクール was built in 1983, making it 43 years old. It is one of 1,578 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,112 GT; within it this ship is the 1,125th largest. 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 37 vessels to Kanadevia Corporation, with a median tonnage of 16,390 GT, delivered between 1959 and 2001. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 65.0 m overall, 滋賀県立びわ湖フローティングスクール is 50.0 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record and a draft of 1.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8948636 this registry holds 39 other vessels, whose median build year is 1967 and which range from 1965 to 1998. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1983.
Its IMO number, 8948636, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 9×6 + 4×5 + 8×4 + 6×3 + 3×2 = 186 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.
