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Largest in this registry
#77,932
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#44,833
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
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No operator attributed to this ship
In brief
Hermann Marwede (SK 29) is the largest search and rescue cruiser (46-m-class) of German Maritime Search and Rescue Service (DGzRS) and the largest search and rescue cruiser in the world. The ship is based at the SAR-station Helgoland.
The boat was built in 2003 at Fassmer-Werft in Berne, Motzen (Weser), Germany; the hull was built from aluminium by Aluship Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland. The daughter-boat Verena was built at Lürssen shipyard. In 2012, the original daughter-boat was changed to a rigid-hulled inflatable boat of the same name.
Total cost for the ship was just under 15 million Euros. The namesake of the cruiser, Hermann Marwede, born in Bremen in 1878 and died there in 1959, had been personally liable partner of the brewery Beck & Co. for around 50 years. Twelve grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Marwede made a significant contribution to financing the 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
Measurements
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 300 gross tons, Hermann Marwede is the 77,932nd 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 20 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 44,833rd by tonnage — larger than 10% 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.
Germany is the country of registry for 885 vessels in this directory, of which Hermann Marwede is the 499th 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 446 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Germany flag, of which 212 are larger by tonnage.
Hermann Marwede was built in 2003, making it 23 years old. It is one of 1,383 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,954 GT; within it this ship is the 1,270th 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 53 vessels to Fassmer, with a median tonnage of 279 GT, delivered between 1982 and 2023. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 46.0 m overall, Hermann Marwede is 69.0 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 10.7 m and a draft of 2.8 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9282601 this registry holds 67 other vessels, whose median build year is 2004 and which range from 2002 to 2006. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2003.
Its IMO number, 9282601, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 8×5 + 2×4 + 6×3 + 0×2 = 141 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among vessels this registry holds no type classification for
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Arhuaco | 1979 | 301 |
| Magritte | 1974 | 301 |
| Kinei Maru No.28 | 1972 | 301 |
| Hermann Marwede (this ship) | 2003 | 300 |
| Pitoa | 1978 | 299 |
| Jenki | 1963 | 299 |
| Talbot III |
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 summaryQuoted from Hermann Marwede on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy maritimus, reused under CC BY-SA 2.0.
| 1971 |
| 299 |