Samuel De Champlain

At 8,072 gross tons, Samuel De Champlain is the 38,646th 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 1.3 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 360 dredgers held here, it ranks 56th by tonnage — larger than 84% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,086 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 11,701 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is People's Republic of China (43 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Royal IHC, with 21 hulls on record.

France is the country of registry for 517 vessels in this directory, of which Samuel De Champlain is the 150th 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 7 dredgers flying the France flag, of which none is larger than Samuel De Champlain.

Samuel De Champlain was built in 2002, making it 24 years old. It is one of 1,298 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,563 GT; within it this ship is the 681st 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.

At 117.0 m overall, Samuel De Champlain is 37.0 m longer than the 80.0 m median for dredgers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9234408 this registry holds 73 other vessels, whose median build year is 2001 and which range from 2000 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2002.

Its IMO number, 9234408, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 3×5 + 4×4 + 4×3 + 0×2 = 118 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.