Abeille Liberté

At 3,249 gross tons, Abeille Liberté is the 50,666th 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 1.8 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,471 tugs held here, it ranks 49th by tonnage — larger than 96% of that group. Their median tonnage is 393 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 1,733 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (239 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Damen Shipyards Gorinchem, with 62 hulls on record.

France is the country of registry for 517 vessels in this directory, of which Abeille Liberté is the 196th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (313 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,161 GT. Browse every ship flagged France.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 15 tugs flying the France flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.

Abeille Liberté was built in 2005, making it 21 years old. It is one of 1,690 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,046 GT; within it this ship is the 1,130th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 50 vessels to Myklebust Verft, with a median tonnage of 3,650 GT, delivered between 1979 and 2022. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 80.0 m overall, Abeille Liberté is 47.7 m longer than the 32.3 m median for tugs on record, with a beam of 16.5 m and a draft of 6.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9308699 this registry holds 61 other vessels, whose median build year is 2005 and which range from 2004 to 2011. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2005.

Its IMO number, 9308699, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 0×5 + 8×4 + 6×3 + 9×2 = 149 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.