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Largest in this registry
#46,168
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#26,394
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
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No operator attributed to this ship
Vessel particulars
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
Construction
In context
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 4,430 gross tons, Geolog Fersman is the 46,168th 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 1.4 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 26,394th by tonnage — larger than 47% 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.
Sierra Leone is the country of registry for 531 vessels in this directory, of which Geolog Fersman is the 169th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (251 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,987 GT. Browse every ship flagged Sierra Leone.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 251 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Sierra Leone flag, of which 89 are larger by tonnage.
Geolog Fersman was built in 1985, making it 41 years old. It is one of 1,312 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,782 GT; within it this ship is the 651st 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 130 vessels to Black Sea Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 4,407 GT, delivered between 1934 and 2013. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 104.5 m overall, Geolog Fersman is 10.5 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 8423234 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryNo English Wikipedia article is linked to this vessel, so no summary is shown.
PhotographNo freely licensed photograph of this vessel is held, so none is shown.
Measurements
Its IMO number, 8423234, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 4×6 + 2×5 + 3×4 + 2×3 + 3×2 = 114 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.