Povl Anker

At 12,358 gross tons, Povl Anker is the 33,040th 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 877 ro-ros held here, it ranks 296th by tonnage — larger than 63% of that group. Their median tonnage is 7,395 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 34,011 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Italy (62 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, with 16 hulls on record.

Denmark is the country of registry for 849 vessels in this directory, of which Povl Anker is the 279th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (495 ships), and the median vessel measures 4,678 GT. Browse every ship flagged Denmark.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 19 ro-ros flying the Denmark flag, of which 9 are larger by tonnage.

Povl Anker was built in 1978, making it 48 years old. It is one of 1,698 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,556 GT; within it this ship is the 414th 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 75 vessels to Aalborg Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 9,021 GT, delivered between 1935 and 2003. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 121.1 m overall, Povl Anker is 3.9 m shorter than the 125.0 m median for ro-ros on record, with a beam of 24.5 m and a draft of 5.3 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7633143 this registry holds 53 other vessels, whose median build year is 1977. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.