Ensco 97

At 4,249 gross tons, Ensco 97 is the 46,839th 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 1.4 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 911 rig / offshore units held here, it ranks 713th by tonnage — larger than 17% of that group. Their median tonnage is 9,254 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 51,732 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Liberia (179 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Hanwha Ocean, with 27 hulls on record.

Liberia is the country of registry for 4,741 vessels in this directory, of which Ensco 97 is the 4,463rd 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 179 rig / offshore units flying the Liberia flag, of which 166 are larger by tonnage.

Ensco 97 was built in 1980, making it 46 years old. It is one of 1,736 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,301 GT; within it this ship is the 541st largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 63.0 m overall, Ensco 97 is 11.0 m shorter than the 74.0 m median for rig / offshore units on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8752477 this registry holds 86 other vessels, whose median build year is 1981 and which range from 1956 to 1989. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1980.

Its IMO number, 8752477, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 157 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.