Desirade

At 9,582 gross tons, Desirade is the 36,695th 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 1.6 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 617 passenger vessels held here, it ranks 51st by tonnage — larger than 90% of that group. Their median tonnage is 909 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 9,718 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Egypt (65 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Meyer Werft, with 16 hulls on record.

France is the country of registry for 517 vessels in this directory, of which Desirade is the 142nd largest by tonnage. 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 11 passenger vessels flying the France flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.

Desirade was built in 1921, making it 105 years old. It is one of 59 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,858 GT; within it this ship is the 2nd largest. Across the whole of the 1920s the registry holds 516 vessels, median 2,350 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 8 vessels to Ateliers et Chantiers de France, with a median tonnage of 9,582 GT, delivered between 1921 and 1987. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 152.7 m overall, Desirade is 91.7 m longer than the 61.0 m median for passenger vessels on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 1168811 this registry holds 36 other vessels, whose median build year is 1942 and which range from 1920 to 1948. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1921.

Its IMO number, 1168811, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 1×7 + 1×6 + 6×5 + 8×4 + 8×3 + 1×2 = 101 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.