Largest in this registry
#28,604
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest dredger
#15
of 347 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
—
No operator attributed to this ship
Vessel particulars
Identification and dimensions
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
- IMO number
- 9238909
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- 253234000
- Call sign
- Flag state
- Luxembourg
- Port of registry
- —
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Dredger
In context
How Juan Sebastian De Elcano compares
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 17,370 gross tons, Juan Sebastian De Elcano is the 28,604th 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 2.9 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 360 dredgers held here, it ranks 15th by tonnage — larger than 96% 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 Juan Sebastian De Elcano is the 21st 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 2 are larger by tonnage.
Juan Sebastian De Elcano was built in 2002, making it 24 years old. It is one of 1,298 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,563 GT; within it this ship is the 561st 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 35 vessels to La Naval (Sestao), with a median tonnage of 28,338 GT, delivered between 1965 and 2018. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 157.0 m overall, Juan Sebastian De Elcano is 77.0 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 9238909 this registry holds 42 other vessels. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at La Naval (Sestao)
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
Where this page comes from
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