At 12,065 gross tons, James Cook is the 33,370th 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 2.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 360 dredgers held here, it ranks 32nd by tonnage — larger than 91% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,086 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 11,701 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is People's Republic of China (43 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Royal IHC, with 21 hulls on record.
Luxembourg is the country of registry for 155 vessels in this directory, of which James Cook is the 28th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (84 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,843 GT. Browse every ship flagged Luxembourg.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 17 dredgers flying the Luxembourg flag, of which 6 are larger by tonnage.
James Cook was built in 1992, making it 34 years old. It is one of 1,130 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,228 GT; within it this ship is the 322nd largest. 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 85 vessels to Royal IHC, with a median tonnage of 9,125 GT, delivered between 1947 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 140.4 m overall, James Cook is 60.4 m longer than the 80.0 m median for dredgers on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9020261 this registry holds 52 other vessels, whose median build year is 1991 and which range from 1990 to 1993. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1992.
Its IMO number, 9020261, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 0×6 + 2×5 + 0×4 + 2×3 + 6×2 = 91 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.
