At 489 gross tons, Minck (standby safety vessel) is the 74,272nd 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 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 41,835th by tonnage — larger than 16% 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.
France is the country of registry for 517 vessels in this directory, of which Minck (standby safety vessel) is the 329th 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 313 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the France flag, of which 179 are larger by tonnage.
The registry attributes 4 vessels to Piriou shipyards, with a median tonnage of 356 GT, delivered between 1986 and 1998. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 32.3 m overall, Minck (standby safety vessel) is 82.7 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 9305829 this registry holds 69 other vessels, whose median build year is 2005 and which range from 2003 to 2007. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series; no build year is recorded for this vessel itself.
Its IMO number, 9305829, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 0×5 + 5×4 + 8×3 + 2×2 = 129 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
