At 311 gross tons, Norden is the 77,709th 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 19 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 611 naval / patrols held here, it ranks 222nd by tonnage — larger than 17% of that group. Their median tonnage is 1,325 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 23,606 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (136 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Austal, with 33 hulls on record.
Germany is the country of registry for 885 vessels in this directory, of which Norden is the 490th 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 30 naval / patrols flying the Germany flag, of which 12 are larger by tonnage.
Norden was built in 1998, making it 28 years old. It is one of 1,367 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,381 GT; within it this ship is the 1,237th 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 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 39.2 m overall, Norden is 47.3 m shorter than the 86.5 m median for naval / patrols on record, with a beam of 8.9 m and a draft of 1.6 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9157129 this registry holds 52 other vessels, whose median build year is 1997 and which range from 1996 to 2000. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1998.
Its IMO number, 9157129, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 5×5 + 7×4 + 1×3 + 2×2 = 129 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
