United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 36 tankers flying the United Kingdom flag.
RFA Blue Rover was built in 1970, making it 56 years old. It is one of 336 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,669 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 124 vessels to Swan Hunter, with a median tonnage of 6,944 GT, delivered between 1903 and 2006. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 140.6 m overall, RFA Blue Rover is 1.6 m longer than the 139.0 m median for tankers on record, with a beam of 19.2 m and a draft of 7.3 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7002409 this registry holds 61 other vessels, whose median build year is 1969 and which range from 1938 to 1970. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1970.
Its IMO number, 7002409, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 0×6 + 0×5 + 2×4 + 4×3 + 0×2 = 69 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
