RFA Lyme Bay

At 23,569 gross tons, RFA Lyme Bay is the 24,024th 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 3.9 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 611 naval / patrols held here, it ranks 28th by tonnage — larger than 89% 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.

United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which RFA Lyme Bay is the 286th largest by tonnage. 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 46 naval / patrols flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 4 are larger by tonnage.

RFA Lyme Bay was built in 2007, making it 19 years old. It is one of 2,469 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,473 GT; within it this ship is the 777th 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 3 vessels to BAE Systems, with a median tonnage of 23,569 GT, delivered between 2006 and 2007. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 177.0 m overall, RFA Lyme Bay is 90.5 m longer than the 86.5 m median for naval / patrols on record, with a beam of 26.4 m and a draft of 0.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9240768 this registry holds 68 other vessels, whose median build year is 2002 and which range from 1992 to 2009. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2007.

Its IMO number, 9240768, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 4×5 + 0×4 + 7×3 + 6×2 = 128 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.