France is the country of registry for 517 vessels in this directory. 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 7 naval / patrols flying the France flag.
Charles Babin was built in 1949, making it 77 years old. It is one of 107 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,256 GT. Across the whole of the 1940s the registry holds 1,039 vessels, median 4,053 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 123 vessels to Chantiers de l'Atlantique, with a median tonnage of 63,786 GT, delivered between 1912 and 2026. See the rest of that yard’s output.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8635007 this registry holds 30 other vessels, whose median build year is 1960 and which range from 1903 to 1993. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1949.
Its IMO number, 8635007, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 6×6 + 3×5 + 5×4 + 0×3 + 0×2 = 127 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.
