Germany is the country of registry for 885 vessels in this directory. 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 30 naval / patrols flying the Germany flag.
IMO 8779542 was built in 1999, making it 27 years old. It is one of 1,252 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,594 GT. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 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 20.1 m overall, IMO 8779542 is 66.4 m shorter than the 86.5 m median for naval / patrols on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8779542 this registry holds 6 other vessels, whose median build year is 1998 and which range from 1986 to 1999. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1999.
Its IMO number, 8779542, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 7×6 + 7×5 + 9×4 + 5×3 + 4×2 = 192 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.
