At 2,974 gross tons, Bourbon Dolphin is the 52,217th 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 2.0 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,471 tugs held here, it ranks 60th by tonnage — larger than 95% of that group. Their median tonnage is 393 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 1,733 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (239 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Damen Shipyards Gorinchem, with 62 hulls on record.
Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which Bourbon Dolphin is the 1,311th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,126 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,102 GT. Browse every ship flagged Norway.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 38 tugs flying the Norway flag, of which 12 are larger by tonnage.
Bourbon Dolphin was built in 2006, making it 20 years old. It is one of 2,118 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,539 GT; within it this ship is the 1,383rd 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 105 vessels to Ulstein Verft, with a median tonnage of 4,157 GT, delivered between 1959 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 75.2 m overall, Bourbon Dolphin is 42.9 m longer than the 32.3 m median for tugs on record, with a beam of 17.0 m and a draft of 6.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9351983 this registry holds 71 other vessels, whose median build year is 2007 and which range from 2005 to 2010. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2006.
Its IMO number, 9351983, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 5×5 + 1×4 + 9×3 + 8×2 = 153 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.
