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Tug

Bülk

IMO 8701284MMSI 211222680Call sign DJVMGermanyBuilt 1987

Operated by Schlepp- und Fährgesellschaft Kiel

Photo: VollwertBIT · CC BY-SA 2.5 · file

Largest in this registry

#79,158

of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage

Largest tug

#868

of 1,263 of this type with a recorded tonnage

Largest in its fleet

of 4 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage

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: 8701284
IMO check digit: Valid
MMSI: 211222680
Call sign: DJVM
Flag state: Germany
Port of registry

In context

How Bülk 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 263 gross tons, Bülk is the 79,158th 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 23 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,471 tugs held here, it ranks 868th by tonnage — larger than 31% 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.

Germany is the country of registry for 885 vessels in this directory, of which Bülk is the 529th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (446 ships), and the median vessel measures 916 GT. Browse every ship flagged Germany.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 70 tugs flying the Germany flag, of which 41 are larger by tonnage.

Bülk was built in 1987, making it 39 years old. It is one of 819 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,937 GT; within it this ship is the 699th 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 4 vessels to Oelkers-Werft, with a median tonnage of 211 GT, delivered between 1958 and 1987. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 29.9 m overall, Bülk is 2.4 m shorter than the 32.3 m median for tugs on record, with a beam of 9.9 m and a draft of 4.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8701284 this registry holds 45 other vessels, whose median build year is 1988 and which range from 1986 to 1991. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1987.

Its IMO number, 8701284, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 7×6 + 0×5 + 1×4 + 2×3 + 8×2 = 124 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.