Ancona

At 12,394 gross tons, Ancona is the 33,001st 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 2.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 217th by tonnage — larger than 75% of that group. Their median tonnage is 3,908 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 25,454 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Japan (241 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with 34 hulls on record.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Ancona is the 5,648th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 16 ferrys flying the Panama flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.

Ancona was built in 1966, making it 60 years old. It is one of 440 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 839 GT; within it this ship is the 17th largest. Across the whole of the 1960s the registry holds 4,074 vessels, median 844 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 33 vessels to Lindholmen Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 4,672 GT, delivered between 1881 and 1968. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 141.2 m overall, Ancona is 37.2 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 20.9 m and a draft of 5.3 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 6608098 this registry holds 6 other vessels, whose median build year is 1966 and which range from 1945 to 1966. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1966.

Its IMO number, 6608098, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 6×7 + 6×6 + 0×5 + 8×4 + 0×3 + 9×2 = 128 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.