At 3,732 gross tons, ALP Guard is the 48,918th 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 1.6 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,471 tugs held here, it ranks 32nd by tonnage — larger than 97% 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.
Netherlands is the country of registry for 1,546 vessels in this directory, of which ALP Guard is the 545th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (839 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,810 GT. Browse every ship flagged Netherlands.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 55 tugs flying the Netherlands flag, of which 4 are larger by tonnage.
ALP Guard was built in 2009, making it 17 years old. It is one of 2,834 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,673 GT; within it this ship is the 1,948th 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 35 vessels to Muetzelfeldtwerft in Cuxhaven, with a median tonnage of 1,262 GT, delivered between 1950 and 2010. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 74.3 m overall, ALP Guard is 42.0 m longer than the 32.3 m median for tugs on record, with a beam of 18.5 m and a draft of 8.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9398539 this registry holds 79 other vessels, whose median build year is 2009 and which range from 2006 to 2011. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2009.
Its IMO number, 9398539, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 9×5 + 8×4 + 5×3 + 3×2 = 179 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
