At 1,797 gross tons, HNLMS Pelikaan is the 59,303rd 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 3.3 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 33,617th by tonnage — larger than 32% 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.
Netherlands is the country of registry for 1,546 vessels in this directory, of which HNLMS Pelikaan is the 858th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (839 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,810 GT. Browse every ship flagged Netherlands.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 839 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Netherlands flag, of which 357 are larger by tonnage.
HNLMS Pelikaan was built in 2006, making it 20 years old. It is one of 2,118 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,539 GT; within it this ship is the 1,562nd 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 100 vessels to Damen Group, with a median tonnage of 450 GT, delivered between 1964 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 65.0 m overall, HNLMS Pelikaan is 50.0 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 13.3 m and a draft of 3.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8994166 this registry holds 27 other vessels, whose median build year is 1997 and which range from 1926 to 2006. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2006.
Its IMO number, 8994166, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 9×6 + 9×5 + 4×4 + 1×3 + 6×2 = 186 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.
