Uilenspiegel

At 12,979 gross tons, Uilenspiegel is the 32,494th 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 2.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 360 dredgers held here, it ranks 26th by tonnage — larger than 93% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,086 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 11,701 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is People's Republic of China (43 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Royal IHC, with 21 hulls on record.

Belgium is the country of registry for 258 vessels in this directory, of which Uilenspiegel is the 66th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (191 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,462 GT. Browse every ship flagged Belgium.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 9 dredgers flying the Belgium flag, of which none is larger than Uilenspiegel.

Uilenspiegel was built in 2002, making it 24 years old. It is one of 1,298 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,563 GT; within it this ship is the 620th 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 85 vessels to Royal IHC, with a median tonnage of 9,125 GT, delivered between 1947 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 142.8 m overall, Uilenspiegel is 62.8 m longer than the 80.0 m median for dredgers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9247467 this registry holds 72 other vessels, whose median build year is 2002 and which range from 2001 to 2004. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2002.

Its IMO number, 9247467, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 4×5 + 7×4 + 4×3 + 6×2 = 147 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.