At 14,740 gross tons, «Far Samson» is the 31,164th 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 2.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,085 multi-purposes held here, it ranks 63rd by tonnage — larger than 93% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,998 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 11,901 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Netherlands (170 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is SLKB Komarno – Slovak Shipyard Komárno, with 78 hulls on record.
Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which «Far Samson» is the 623rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,126 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,102 GT. Browse every ship flagged Norway.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 48 multi-purposes flying the Norway flag, of which 5 are larger by tonnage.
«Far Samson» was built in 2009, making it 17 years old. It is one of 2,834 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,673 GT; within it this ship is the 1,301st 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 74 vessels to Langsten Slip & Båtbyggeri, with a median tonnage of 4,797 GT, delivered between 1967 and 2023. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 121.5 m overall, «Far Samson» is 31.5 m longer than the 90.0 m median for multi-purposes on record, with a beam of 26.0 m and a draft of 8.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9400497 this registry holds 78 other vessels, whose median build year is 2009 and which range from 2006 to 2012. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2009.
Its IMO number, 9400497, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 4×6 + 0×5 + 0×4 + 4×3 + 9×2 = 117 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.
