At 5,954 gross tons, RRS Discovery is the 42,132nd largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 612 research / surveys held here, it ranks 86th by tonnage — larger than 82% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,180 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 9,452 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (90 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Wärtsilä, with 36 hulls on record.
United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which RRS Discovery is the 560th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 25 research / surveys flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.
RRS Discovery was built in 2013, making it 13 years old. It is one of 2,213 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 22,566 GT; within it this ship is the 1,363rd largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 17 vessels to Freire Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 2,990 GT, delivered between 2002 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 99.7 m overall, RRS Discovery is 28.7 m longer than the 71.0 m median for research / surveys on record, with a beam of 18.0 m and a draft of 6.6 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9588029 this registry holds 66 other vessels, whose median build year is 2011 and which range from 2010 to 2022. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2013.
Its IMO number, 9588029, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 5×6 + 8×5 + 8×4 + 0×3 + 2×2 = 169 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
