UKD Orca

At 3,087 gross tons, UKD Orca is the 51,246th 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 1.9 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 360 dredgers held here, it ranks 138th by tonnage — larger than 60% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,086 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 11,701 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is People's Republic of China (43 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Royal IHC, with 21 hulls on record.

United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which UKD Orca is the 940th 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 12 dredgers flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 5 are larger by tonnage.

UKD Orca was built in 2010, making it 16 years old. It is one of 3,028 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 20,204 GT; within it this ship is the 2,245th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 73 vessels to Barkmeijer Shipyards, with a median tonnage of 2,531 GT, delivered between 1971 and 2022. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 78.0 m overall, UKD Orca is 2.0 m shorter than the 80.0 m median for dredgers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9491355 this registry holds 61 other vessels, whose median build year is 2011. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.