At 2,255 gross tons, Fugro Meridian is the 56,394th 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 2.7 times smaller than 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 31,959th by tonnage — larger than 36% 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.
The Bahamas is the country of registry for 1,614 vessels in this directory, of which Fugro Meridian is the 1,479th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (940 ships), and the median vessel measures 30,020 GT. Browse every ship flagged The Bahamas.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 940 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the The Bahamas flag, of which 854 are larger by tonnage.
Fugro Meridian was built in 1982, making it 44 years old. It is one of 1,706 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,592 GT; within it this ship is the 973rd 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.
The registry attributes 60 vessels to Flekkefjord Slipp & Maskinfabrikk AS, with a median tonnage of 1,808 GT, delivered between 1961 and 2008. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 73.0 m overall, Fugro Meridian is 42.0 m shorter 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 8101331 this registry holds 37 other vessels, whose median build year is 1982 and which range from 1980 to 1984. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1982.
Its IMO number, 8101331, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 1×6 + 0×5 + 1×4 + 3×3 + 3×2 = 81 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.
