West Vela

At 60,555 gross tons, West Vela is the 7,890th 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 10 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 911 rig / offshore units held here, it ranks 52nd by tonnage — larger than 94% of that group. Their median tonnage is 9,254 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 51,732 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Liberia (179 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Hanwha Ocean, with 27 hulls on record.

Marshall Islands is the country of registry for 3,838 vessels in this directory, of which West Vela is the 799th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,407 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,987 GT. Browse every ship flagged Marshall Islands.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 117 rig / offshore units flying the Marshall Islands flag, of which 10 are larger by tonnage.

West Vela was built in 2013, making it 13 years old. It is one of 2,213 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 22,566 GT; within it this ship is the 292nd largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 227.0 m overall, West Vela is 153.0 m longer than the 74.0 m median for rig / offshore units on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9609407 this registry holds 64 other vessels, whose median build year is 2012 and which range from 2010 to 2016. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2013.

Its IMO number, 9609407, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 6×6 + 0×5 + 9×4 + 4×3 + 0×2 = 147 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.