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Container ship
Operator on record: Hansa Hamburg Shipping Company (2005–2017)
Photo: Garitzko · Public domain · file
Largest in this registry
#29,772
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest container ship
#2,637
of 3,704 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
—
No operator attributed to this ship
In brief
Newnew Polar Bear is the former name of a feeder container ship that damaged the Balticconnector natural gas pipeline in the Gulf of Finland in October 2023 by dragging its anchor for several hundred nautical miles.
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.
At 16,324 gross tons, Newnew Polar Bear is the 29,772nd 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 2.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 2,637th by tonnage — larger than 29% of that group. Their median tonnage is 33,698 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 140,096 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Liberia (498 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, with 348 hulls on record.
United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which Newnew Polar Bear is the 332nd 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 66 container ships flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 59 are larger by tonnage.
Newnew Polar Bear was built in 2005, making it 21 years old. It is one of 1,690 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,046 GT; within it this ship is the 785th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 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 169.0 m overall, Newnew Polar Bear is 52.6 m shorter than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record, with a beam of 27.2 m and a draft of 9.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9313204 this registry holds 76 other vessels, whose median build year is 2006 and which range from 2004 to 2011. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2005.
Its IMO number, 9313204, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 1×5 + 3×4 + 2×3 + 0×2 = 104 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among container ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| «Dole California» | 1989 | 16,488 |
| «Dole Costa Rica» | 1991 | 16,488 |
| Elisa B | 1979 | 16,386 |
| Newnew Polar Bear (this ship) | 2005 | 16,324 |
| Queen Of Luck | 1995 | 16,316 |
| Asia | 1993 | 16,282 |
| Henrie |
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.

Norwegian Jade
2006 · 93,558 GT · The Bahamas

Norwegian Pearl
2006 · 93,530 GT · Germany

Norwegian Jewel
2005 · 93,502 GT · Germany

Jewel of the Seas
2004 · 90,090 GT · Norway

MV Pont-Aven
2004 · 40,859 GT · France

Baltic Shearwater
2005 · 16,324 GT · Liberia

Baltic Petrel
2005 · 16,324 GT · Cyprus
«Eilbek»
2005 · 16,324 GT · Marshall Islands
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Newnew Polar Bear on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Garitzko, reused under Public domain.
| 1997 |
| 16,281 |