Al Baidah

At 112 gross tons, Al Baidah is the 83,430th 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 54 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 49,280th by tonnage — larger than 1% 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.

Yemen is the country of registry for 21 vessels in this directory, of which Al Baidah is the 20th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (15 ships), and the median vessel measures 648 GT. Browse every ship flagged Yemen.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 15 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Yemen flag, of which 14 are larger by tonnage.

Al Baidah was built in 1976, making it 50 years old. It is one of 1,812 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,484 GT; within it this ship is the 1,599th largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7947958 this registry holds 7 other vessels, whose median build year is 1979 and which range from 1953 to 1979. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1976.

Its IMO number, 7947958, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 9×6 + 4×5 = 188 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.