Bedford

At 20,795 gross tons, Bedford is the 26,175th 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 3.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 4,961st by tonnage — larger than 24% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.

Liberia is the country of registry for 4,741 vessels in this directory, of which Bedford is the 3,297th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,739 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,983 GT. Browse every ship flagged Liberia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 669 bulk carriers flying the Liberia flag, of which 548 are larger by tonnage.

The registry attributes 43 vessels to Baltic Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 20,646 GT, delivered between 1960 and 2022. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 201.0 m overall, Bedford is 11.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7021467 this registry holds 39 other vessels, whose median build year is 1969 and which range from 1942 to 2010. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series; no build year is recorded for this vessel itself.

Its IMO number, 7021467, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 0×6 + 2×5 + 1×4 + 4×3 + 6×2 = 87 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.