At 287 gross tons, Hannover is the 78,514th 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 21 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 813th by tonnage — larger than 8% 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.
Germany is the country of registry for 885 vessels in this directory, of which Hannover is the 510th 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 27 ferrys flying the Germany flag, of which 12 are larger by tonnage.
Hannover was built in 1976, making it 50 years old. It is one of 1,812 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,484 GT; within it this ship is the 1,521st largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 8 vessels to Schiffswerft Schlömer, with a median tonnage of 287 GT, delivered between 1968 and 1999. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 42.7 m overall, Hannover is 61.3 m shorter than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 7.8 m and a draft of 1.1 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7525918 this registry holds 54 other vessels, whose median build year is 1977 and which range from 1945 to 1978. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1976.
Its IMO number, 7525918, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 5×6 + 2×5 + 5×4 + 9×3 + 1×2 = 138 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.
