Thor Heyerdahl

Identity & particulars

Name

Thor Heyerdahl

IMO numberWhat is an IMO number?

5221491

MMSIWhat is an MMSI?

211232340

Call signWhat is a call sign?

DKQH

Flag

Germany

Vessel type

Sailing vessel

AIS ship type

Sailing

Gross tonnageGross tonnage vs deadweight

211

Length overall

50 m

Beam

—

Year built

—

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Timeline

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Safety & inspections

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Port calls

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About Thor Heyerdahl

Thor Heyerdahl (named after Thor Heyerdahl), originally named Tinka, later Marga Henning, Silke, and Minnow, was built as a freight carrying motor ship with auxiliary sails at the shipyard Smit & Zoon in Westerbroek, Netherlands, in 1930. Her original homeport being Hamburg, Germany, she was used for the next 50 years as a freighter. Eventually sailing under the flag of Panama as Minnow and then awaiting further use in Germany, she was bought in 1979 by two sailing enthusiasts, who turned the now run-down ship into a topsail schooner to use it for sail training, especially for teenagers and young adults. One of the two original owners was Detlef Soitzek, who had sailed with the Norwegian anthropologist, zoologist, ethnologist and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl on his Tigris expedition in 1977/1978, and suggested naming the ship after the famous researcher and adventurer.

Summary from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA.

Frequently asked questions

Where is Thor Heyerdahl now?

Thor Heyerdahl (Sailing vessel, Germany flag) was last seen on AIS on Sep 29, 2026, 07:47 UTC, moored, in the Baltic Sea. Voydar has no more recent AIS position for this ship. Its current location cannot be established from this report. The crew-entered destination was DEKEL (voyage report via AISstream.io global terrestrial AIS, received Sep 29, 2026, 07:25 UTC). This report does not confirm the ship’s current route.

What kind of ship is Thor Heyerdahl?

Thor Heyerdahl is a sailing vessel sailing under the flag of Germany. The vessel is 50 m long and has a gross tonnage of 211.

What sanctions and inspection records does Voydar hold for Thor Heyerdahl?

Voydar has no matched sanctions record displayed for Thor Heyerdahl from the OFAC SDN list, the UK Sanctions List, the Canadian autonomous sanctions list, the EU list of designated vessels, the New Zealand Russia Sanctions Register and the French national asset-freeze register. Coverage may be incomplete; this is not sanctions clearance. Thor Heyerdahl has 1 recorded Port State Control inspection. Detention and deficiency detail is not recorded for these inspections.