At 194 gross tons, Falckenstein is the 81,111th 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 31 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,471 tugs held here, it ranks 1,033rd by tonnage — larger than 18% 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 Falckenstein is the 609th 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 64 are larger by tonnage.
Falckenstein was built in 1990, making it 36 years old. It is one of 1,306 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,025 GT; within it this ship is the 1,200th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 1 vessels to Johann Oelkers, with a median tonnage of 194 GT, delivered between 1990 and 1990. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 27.0 m overall, Falckenstein is 5.3 m shorter than the 32.3 m median for tugs on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8917704 this registry holds 63 other vessels, whose median build year is 1991 and which range from 1989 to 1995. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1990.
Its IMO number, 8917704, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 9×6 + 1×5 + 7×4 + 7×3 + 0×2 = 164 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
