Franjack

At 486 gross tons, Franjack is the 74,343rd 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 12 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 360 dredgers held here, it ranks 329th by tonnage — larger than 5% 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.

France is the country of registry for 517 vessels in this directory, of which Franjack is the 333rd 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 7 dredgers flying the France flag, of which 5 are larger by tonnage.

Franjack was built in 1965, making it 61 years old. It is one of 378 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 695 GT; within it this ship is the 135th largest. Across the whole of the 1960s the registry holds 4,074 vessels, median 844 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 63 vessels to Frederikshavn Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 9,784 GT, delivered between 1935 and 1999. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 53.0 m overall, Franjack is 27.0 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 7051242 this registry holds 31 other vessels, whose median build year is 1971 and which range from 1927 to 1998. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.