Sovetskoye Zapolyarye

At 14,284 gross tons, Sovetskoye Zapolyarye is the 31,466th 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 2.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,411 fishing vessels held here, it ranks 3rd by tonnage — larger than 100% 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.

Russia is the country of registry for 2,810 vessels in this directory, of which Sovetskoye Zapolyarye is the 83rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (830 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,293 GT. Browse every ship flagged Russia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 797 fishing vessels flying the Russia flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.

Sovetskoye Zapolyarye was built in 1969, making it 57 years old. It is one of 814 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 992 GT; within it this ship is the 32nd largest. Across the whole of the 1960s the registry holds 4,074 vessels, median 844 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 175 vessels to Gdańsk Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 9,899 GT, delivered between 1930 and 2014. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 164.0 m overall, Sovetskoye Zapolyarye is 110.0 m longer than the 54.0 m median for fishing vessels on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7008996 this registry holds 43 other vessels, whose median build year is 1969 and which range from 1968 to 1970. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1969.

Its IMO number, 7008996, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 0×6 + 0×5 + 8×4 + 9×3 + 9×2 = 126 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.