At 10,044 gross tons, Chilean icebreaker Almirante Viel is the 35,601st 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 1.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 612 research / surveys held here, it ranks 42nd by tonnage — larger than 91% 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.
Chile is the country of registry for 238 vessels in this directory, of which Chilean icebreaker Almirante Viel is the 32nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (142 ships), and the median vessel measures 948 GT. Browse every ship flagged Chile.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 4 research / surveys flying the Chile flag, of which none is larger than Chilean icebreaker Almirante Viel.
Chilean icebreaker Almirante Viel was built in 2024, making it 2 years old. It is one of 116 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,985 GT; within it this ship is the 58th largest. Across the whole of the 2020s the registry holds 1,769 vessels, median 29,777 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 15 vessels to ASMAR, with a median tonnage of 2,233 GT, delivered between 1988 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 111.0 m overall, Chilean icebreaker Almirante Viel is 40.0 m longer than the 71.0 m median for research / surveys on record, with a beam of 21.0 m and a draft of 7.2 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9843948 this registry holds 32 other vessels, whose median build year is 2019 and which range from 2017 to 2024. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2024.
Its IMO number, 9843948, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 8×6 + 4×5 + 3×4 + 9×3 + 4×2 = 178 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.
