At 79,592 gross tons, Gerd Knutsen is the 5,889th 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 13 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 3,236th by tonnage — larger than 93% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.
United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which Gerd Knutsen is the 107th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,835 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 41 are larger by tonnage.
Gerd Knutsen was built in 1996, making it 30 years old. It is one of 1,254 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,254 GT; within it this ship is the 69th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 124 vessels to Harland and Wolff, with a median tonnage of 12,002 GT, delivered between 1904 and 2003. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 277.0 m overall, Gerd Knutsen is 162.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9041057 this registry holds 59 other vessels, whose median build year is 1993 and which range from 1991 to 2014. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1996.
Its IMO number, 9041057, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 0×6 + 4×5 + 1×4 + 0×3 + 5×2 = 97 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.
