France

At 20,139 gross tons, France is the 26,614th 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 3.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 14,870th by tonnage — larger than 70% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

Tuvalu is the country of registry for 239 vessels in this directory, of which France is the 80th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (115 ships), and the median vessel measures 8,517 GT. Browse every ship flagged Tuvalu.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 115 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Tuvalu flag, of which 40 are larger by tonnage.

France was built in 1981, making it 45 years old. It is one of 1,653 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,186 GT; within it this ship is the 236th 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 186.0 m overall, France is 71.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7728704 this registry holds 43 other vessels, whose median build year is 1979 and which range from 1978 to 1981. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1981.

Its IMO number, 7728704, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 154 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.