Bernadette

At 52,726 gross tons, Bernadette is the 9,297th 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 8.8 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 1,260th by tonnage — larger than 66% of that group. Their median tonnage is 33,698 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 140,096 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Liberia (498 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, with 348 hulls on record.

Portugal is the country of registry for 389 vessels in this directory, of which Bernadette is the 39th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (223 ships), and the median vessel measures 7,519 GT. Browse every ship flagged Portugal.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 43 container ships flying the Portugal flag, of which 13 are larger by tonnage.

Bernadette was built in 2009, making it 17 years old. It is one of 2,834 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,673 GT; within it this ship is the 444th 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.

At 294.1 m overall, Bernadette is 72.5 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record and a draft of 13.6 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9407885 this registry holds 74 other vessels, whose median build year is 2009 and which range from 2006 to 2011. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2009.

Its IMO number, 9407885, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 155 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.