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Meerkatze

IMO 9421245MMSI 218762000Call sign DBFXGermanyBuilt 2009

Operated by German Navy

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Largest in this registry

#58,044

of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage

Largest unclassified

#32,878

of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage

Largest in its fleet

of 7 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage

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: 9421245
IMO check digit: Valid
MMSI: 218762000
Call sign: DBFX
Flag state: Germany

In context

How Meerkatze 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 1,981 gross tons, Meerkatze is the 58,044th 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 3.0 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 32,878th by tonnage — larger than 34% 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.

Germany is the country of registry for 885 vessels in this directory, of which Meerkatze is the 268th 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 446 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Germany flag, of which 115 are larger by tonnage.

Meerkatze was built in 2009, making it 17 years old. It is one of 2,834 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,673 GT; within it this ship is the 2,227th 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 84 vessels to Peene-Werft, with a median tonnage of 8,821 GT, delivered between 1967 and 2011. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 72.8 m overall, Meerkatze is 42.3 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 12.5 m and a draft of 5.2 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9421245 this registry holds 79 other vessels, whose median build year is 2008 and which range from 2006 to 2019. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2009.

Its IMO number, 9421245, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 4×6 + 2×5 + 1×4 + 2×3 + 4×2 = 115 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.