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Operator on record: Randstad NV
Largest in this registry
#69,428
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#38,959
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
—
No operator attributed to this ship
In brief
Stad Amsterdam (City of Amsterdam) is a three-masted clipper that was built in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 2000 at the Damen Shipyard.
The ship was designed by Gerard Dijkstra who modelled her after the mid-19th century frigate Amsterdam, but she is not a replica. A major difference is that the hull is made of steel. The owners call the ship a "modern extreme clipper in historical perspective", meaning that the construction method is a combination of the best qualities of clippers of the past, outfitted and built with modern techniques but with a classic "look and feel". She is a very fast ship, with 15 knots being a normal speed. She won the 2001 Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Race.
She is rigged with double topsails on the fore and main mast and a single topsail on the mizzen. She has royals on all masts and a skysail on the main mast.
The building of the hull in 1997/98 was used as a work experience project for the unemployed (e.g. metalworking and welding). The ship was first presented to the public at the 2000 edition of SAIL Amsterdam. During the 2005, 2010 and 2015 editions of the event she was the flagship.
The Stad Amsterdam is used for training and as a charter-ship for guests. The crew is international and the official language on board is English. Her home port is Amsterdam.
Vessel particulars
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
Construction
Measurements
In context
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 723 gross tons, Stad Amsterdam is the 69,428th 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 8.3 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 38,959th by tonnage — larger than 22% 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.
Kingdom of the Netherlands is the country of registry for 19 vessels in this directory, of which Stad Amsterdam is the 13th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is container ships (11 ships), and the median vessel measures 27,988 GT. Browse every ship flagged Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 5 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Kingdom of the Netherlands flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.
Stad Amsterdam was built in 2000, making it 26 years old. It is one of 1,296 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,737 GT; within it this ship is the 1,038th 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 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 76.0 m overall, Stad Amsterdam is 39.0 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 10.6 m and a draft of 4.2 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9185554 this registry holds 62 other vessels, whose median build year is 1999 and which range from 1997 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2000.
Its IMO number, 9185554, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 8×5 + 5×4 + 5×3 + 5×2 = 154 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among vessels this registry holds no type classification for
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Eide Lift | 1971 | 724 |
| Sun No.31 | 1980 | 724 |
| Barnston | 1921 | 724 |
| Stad Amsterdam (this ship) | 2000 | 723 |
| Polarbas | 1951 | 722 |
| Pacific Lion II | 1977 | 722 |
| Trafalgar Service |
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Stad Amsterdam on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy daisybush, reused under CC BY 2.0.
| 1983 |
| 722 |