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No gross tonnage is recorded for this vessel, so it cannot be ranked by size. Rank is only shown where the underlying measurement exists.
In brief
The ship Life is a former fishing cutter, which was used in the Mediterranean from 2017 to 2018 under the name Seefuchs for the Sea-Eye association from Regensburg as a rescue ship between Malta and Libya. In 2019 the ship was given away to the Spanish organisation Proem-Aid. In 2021, the ship was intercepted in international waters with a large drug load after being bought by drug dealers, in a joint investigation by the Guardia Civil and the Servicio de Vigilancia Aduanera.
Before she was used as a rescue ship, the Seefuchs was based in the museum harbor in Greifswald for many years as a museum or traditional ship. Her sister ship is the Sea-Eye, which is also used by Sea-Eye. Seefuchs has the MMSI 244090482.
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.
Germany is the country of registry for 885 vessels in this directory. 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 446 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Germany flag.
Seefuchs was built in 1959, making it 67 years old. It is one of 245 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 517 GT. Across the whole of the 1950s the registry holds 2,005 vessels, median 960 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 88 vessels to Elbewerft Boizenburg, with a median tonnage of 1,692 GT, delivered between 1923 and 2003. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 26.5 m overall, Seefuchs is 88.5 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 5.9 m and a draft of 3.8 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5148716 this registry holds 15 other vessels, whose median build year is 1951 and which range from 1929 to 1960. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1959.
Its IMO number, 5148716, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 1×6 + 4×5 + 8×4 + 7×3 + 1×2 = 116 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by IMO number
| Ship | IMO | Built |
|---|---|---|
| «HDW Herkules» | 5148754 | 1960 |
| IMO 5148807 | 5148807 | 1939 |
| Wasa Lejon | 5148601 | 1946 |
| Hercules | 5148534 | — |
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.
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Life (ship) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Gregor Rom, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.