At 238 gross tons, HMC Valiant is the 79,834th 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 25 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 611 naval / patrols held here, it ranks 234th by tonnage — larger than 12% of that group. Their median tonnage is 1,325 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 23,606 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (136 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Austal, with 33 hulls on record.
HMC Valiant was built in 2004, making it 22 years old. It is one of 1,485 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 17,188 GT; within it this ship is the 1,380th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 100 vessels to Damen Group, with a median tonnage of 450 GT, delivered between 1964 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 42.8 m overall, HMC Valiant is 43.7 m shorter than the 86.5 m median for naval / patrols on record, with a beam of 7.1 m and a draft of 2.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9293698 this registry holds 74 other vessels, whose median build year is 2005 and which range from 2003 to 2010. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2004.
Its IMO number, 9293698, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 9×5 + 3×4 + 6×3 + 9×2 = 168 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.
