At 24,534 gross tons, MV Rosalind Franklin is the 23,351st 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 4.1 times 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 13,054th by tonnage — larger than 74% 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 MV Rosalind Franklin is the 90th 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 40 are larger by tonnage.
MV Rosalind Franklin was built in 1989, making it 37 years old. It is one of 1,131 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,938 GT; within it this ship is the 167th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 7 vessels to STX France, with a median tonnage of 97,741 GT, delivered between 1989 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 151.2 m overall, MV Rosalind Franklin is 36.2 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 26.0 m and a draft of 6.2 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8707329 this registry holds 34 other vessels, whose median build year is 1987 and which range from 1987 to 1991. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1989.
Its IMO number, 8707329, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 7×6 + 0×5 + 7×4 + 3×3 + 2×2 = 139 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
