At 30,236 gross tons, GSF Development Driller II is the 19,128th 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 5.0 times 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 10,718th by tonnage — larger than 78% 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.
Vanuatu is the country of registry for 425 vessels in this directory, of which GSF Development Driller II is the 21st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (208 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,446 GT. Browse every ship flagged Vanuatu.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 208 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Vanuatu flag, of which 9 are larger by tonnage.
GSF Development Driller II was built in 2005, making it 21 years old. It is one of 1,690 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,046 GT; within it this ship is the 528th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 1 vessels to PPL Shipyard Pte Ltd (primary), with a median tonnage of 30,236 GT, delivered between 2005 and 2005. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 116.0 m overall, GSF Development Driller II is 1.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 78.7 m and a draft of 17.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8765515 this registry holds 39 other vessels, whose median build year is 2002 and which range from 1972 to 2009. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2005.
Its IMO number, 8765515, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 7×6 + 6×5 + 5×4 + 5×3 + 1×2 = 165 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.
