RV Polarstern

At 12,614 gross tons, RV Polarstern is the 32,796th 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 2.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 612 research / surveys held here, it ranks 33rd by tonnage — larger than 93% 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.

Germany is the country of registry for 885 vessels in this directory, of which RV Polarstern is the 124th 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 40 research / surveys flying the Germany flag, of which none is larger than RV Polarstern.

RV Polarstern was built in 1982, making it 44 years old. It is one of 1,706 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,592 GT; within it this ship is the 471st largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 210 vessels to Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, with a median tonnage of 30,285 GT, delivered between 1905 and 2010. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 102.2 m overall, RV Polarstern is 31.2 m longer than the 71.0 m median for research / surveys on record, with a beam of 25.0 m and a draft of 10.7 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8013132 this registry holds 53 other vessels, whose median build year is 1982 and which range from 1980 to 1985. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1982.

Its IMO number, 8013132, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 0×6 + 1×5 + 3×4 + 1×3 + 3×2 = 82 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.