Dakhla

At 719 gross tons, Dakhla is the 69,518th 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 8.3 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 360 dredgers held here, it ranks 295th by tonnage — larger than 15% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,086 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 11,701 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is People's Republic of China (43 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Royal IHC, with 21 hulls on record.

Morocco is the country of registry for 156 vessels in this directory, of which Dakhla is the 42nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (97 ships), and the median vessel measures 395 GT. Browse every ship flagged Morocco.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 4 dredgers flying the Morocco flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.

Dakhla was built in 1973, making it 53 years old. It is one of 2,097 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,435 GT; within it this ship is the 1,137th 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.

At 56.0 m overall, Dakhla is 24.0 m shorter than the 80.0 m median for dredgers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8982840 this registry holds 20 other vessels, whose median build year is 1998 and which range from 1961 to 2003. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1973.

Its IMO number, 8982840, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 = 190 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.