Jens Albrecht III

At 118 gross tons, Jens Albrecht III is the 83,268th 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 51 times smaller than 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 49,146th by tonnage — larger than 1% 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.

Germany is the country of registry for 885 vessels in this directory, of which Jens Albrecht III is the 671st 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 446 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Germany flag, of which 308 are larger by tonnage.

Jens Albrecht III was built in 1935, making it 91 years old. It is one of 50 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 448 GT; within it this ship is the 19th largest. Across the whole of the 1930s the registry holds 552 vessels, median 1,138 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 160 vessels to Meyer Werft, with a median tonnage of 16,324 GT, delivered between 1902 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 26.5 m overall, Jens Albrecht III 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 5.8 m and a draft of 1.2 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8745931 this registry holds 28 other vessels, whose median build year is 1988 and which range from 1910 to 2009. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1935.

Its IMO number, 8745931, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 7×6 + 4×5 + 5×4 + 9×3 + 3×2 = 171 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.