Marion Dufresne

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Marion Dufresne was built in 1973, making it 53 years old. It is one of 2,097 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,435 GT. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 36 vessels to Ateliers et Chantiers du Havre, with a median tonnage of 8,522 GT, delivered between 1966 and 2002. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 112.5 m overall, Marion Dufresne is 2.5 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 18.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7208388 this registry holds 60 other vessels, whose median build year is 1972 and which range from 1945 to 1973. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1973.

Its IMO number, 7208388, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 2×6 + 0×5 + 8×4 + 3×3 + 8×2 = 118 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.