At 248 gross tons, Delfshaven is the 79,573rd 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 24 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 46,189th by tonnage — larger than 7% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.
Netherlands is the country of registry for 1,546 vessels in this directory, of which Delfshaven is the 1,197th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (839 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,810 GT. Browse every ship flagged Netherlands.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 839 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Netherlands flag, of which 564 are larger by tonnage.
Delfshaven was built in 1959, making it 67 years old. It is one of 245 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 517 GT; within it this ship is the 106th largest. Across the whole of the 1950s the registry holds 2,005 vessels, median 960 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 36 vessels to Scheepswerf Gebr. van Diepen, Waterhuizen, with a median tonnage of 3,955 GT, delivered between 1917 and 2002. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 40.0 m overall, Delfshaven is 75.0 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8434013 this registry holds 28 other vessels, whose median build year is 1978 and which range from 1903 to 1998. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1959.
Its IMO number, 8434013, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 4×6 + 3×5 + 4×4 + 0×3 + 1×2 = 113 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.
