Opal Leader

At 40,986 gross tons, Opal Leader is the 13,215th 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 6.8 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,085 multi-purposes held here, it ranks 2nd by tonnage — larger than 100% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,998 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 11,901 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Netherlands (170 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is SLKB Komarno – Slovak Shipyard Komárno, with 78 hulls on record.

The Bahamas is the country of registry for 1,614 vessels in this directory, of which Opal Leader is the 614th largest by tonnage. 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 12 multi-purposes flying the The Bahamas flag, of which none is larger than Opal Leader.

Opal Leader 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 440th 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 144 vessels to Uljanik, with a median tonnage of 25,600 GT, delivered between 1952 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 176.0 m overall, Opal Leader is 86.0 m longer than the 90.0 m median for multi-purposes on record, with a beam of 31.1 m and a draft of 8.8 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9318498 this registry holds 66 other vessels, whose median build year is 2006 and which range from 2004 to 2008. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2007.

Its IMO number, 9318498, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 1×5 + 8×4 + 4×3 + 9×2 = 148 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.