«VB Rasant»

At 268 gross tons, «VB Rasant» is the 78,998th 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 22 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,471 tugs held here, it ranks 840th by tonnage — larger than 32% 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.

Germany is the country of registry for 885 vessels in this directory, of which «VB Rasant» is the 521st 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 70 tugs flying the Germany flag, of which 38 are larger by tonnage.

«VB Rasant» was built in 2016, making it 10 years old. It is one of 1,628 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 26,388 GT; within it this ship is the 1,533rd 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 24.6 m overall, «VB Rasant» is 7.8 m shorter than the 32.3 m median for tugs on record and a draft of 3.9 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9763241 this registry holds 42 other vessels, whose median build year is 2016 and which range from 2015 to 2018. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2016.

Its IMO number, 9763241, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 7×6 + 6×5 + 3×4 + 2×3 + 4×2 = 161 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.