SD Tempest

At 495 gross tons, SD Tempest is the 73,952nd 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 12 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,471 tugs held here, it ranks 508th by tonnage — larger than 59% of that group. Their median tonnage is 393 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 1,733 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (239 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Damen Shipyards Gorinchem, with 62 hulls on record.

United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which SD Tempest is the 1,505th 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 62 tugs flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.

SD Tempest was built in 2017, making it 9 years old. It is one of 1,468 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 26,213 GT; within it this ship is the 1,373rd 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 100 vessels to Damen Group, with a median tonnage of 450 GT, delivered between 1964 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 32.9 m overall, SD Tempest is within a metre of the 32.3 m median length for tugs on record, with a beam of 12.6 m and a draft of 6.5 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9803637 this registry holds 48 other vessels. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.