Fosen 85

At 4,750 gross tons, Fosen 85 is the 45,270th 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 1.3 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,471 tugs held here, it ranks 22nd by tonnage — larger than 98% 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 Fosen 85 is the 991st 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 9 are larger by tonnage.

Fosen 85 was built in 2012, making it 14 years old. It is one of 2,747 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 1,927th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 91.0 m overall, Fosen 85 is 58.7 m longer than the 32.3 m median for tugs on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9544437 this registry holds 59 other vessels, whose median build year is 2011 and which range from 2009 to 2018. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2012.

Its IMO number, 9544437, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 = 147 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.