Largest in this registry
#42,531
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest research / survey
#91
of 483 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
—
No operator attributed to this ship
Vessel particulars
Identification and dimensions
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
- IMO number
- 8709951
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- 371729000
- Call sign
- Flag state
- Panama
- Port of registry
- —
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Research / survey
In context
How BGP Pioneer compares
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 5,739 gross tons, BGP Pioneer is the 42,531st largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 612 research / surveys held here, it ranks 91st by tonnage — larger than 81% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,180 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 9,452 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (90 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Wärtsilä, with 36 hulls on record.
Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which BGP Pioneer is the 7,043rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 19 research / surveys flying the Panama flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.
BGP Pioneer was built in 1988, making it 38 years old. It is one of 920 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,512 GT; within it this ship is the 229th 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 67 vessels to Søviknes Verft, with a median tonnage of 3,160 GT, delivered between 1956 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 83.0 m overall, BGP Pioneer is 12.0 m longer than the 71.0 m median for research / surveys on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8709951 this registry holds 41 other vessels, whose median build year is 1988 and which range from 1987 to 1990. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at Søviknes Verft
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Provenance
Where this page comes from
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryNo English Wikipedia article is linked to this vessel, so no summary is shown.
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