Prairial

The Bahamas is the country of registry for 1,614 vessels in this directory. 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 60 oil tankers flying the The Bahamas flag.

Prairial was built in 1979, making it 47 years old. It is one of 1,718 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,382 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 123 vessels to Chantiers de l'Atlantique, with a median tonnage of 63,786 GT, delivered between 1912 and 2026. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 414.2 m overall, Prairial is 235.2 m longer than the 179.0 m median for oil tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7408720 this registry holds 57 other vessels, whose median build year is 1975 and which range from 1974 to 1983. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1979.

Its IMO number, 7408720, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 4×6 + 0×5 + 8×4 + 7×3 + 2×2 = 130 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.