At 251 gross tons, IMO 8408480 is the 79,461st 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 24 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,471 tugs held here, it ranks 897th by tonnage — larger than 29% 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.
Germany is the country of registry for 885 vessels in this directory, of which IMO 8408480 is the 545th 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 70 tugs flying the Germany flag, of which 47 are larger by tonnage.
IMO 8408480 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 1,184th 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 45 vessels to Jansen-Werft, with a median tonnage of 2,726 GT, delivered between 1951 and 2016. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 29.0 m overall, IMO 8408480 is 3.3 m shorter than the 32.3 m median for tugs on record, with a beam of 8.8 m and a draft of 3.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8408480 this registry holds 60 other vessels, whose median build year is 1985 and which range from 1984 to 1987. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1985.
Its IMO number, 8408480, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 4×6 + 0×5 + 8×4 + 4×3 + 8×2 = 140 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.
