At 299 gross tons, Gudvangen is the 77,971st 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 20 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 44,863rd by tonnage — larger than 9% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.
Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which Gudvangen is the 2,253rd 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 2,126 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Norway flag, of which 1,483 are larger by tonnage.
Gudvangen was built in 1954, making it 72 years old. It is one of 182 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,174 GT; within it this ship is the 51st largest. Across the whole of the 1950s the registry holds 2,005 vessels, median 960 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 88 vessels to Bergen Mekaniske Verksted, with a median tonnage of 3,441 GT, delivered between 1867 and 2010. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 40.1 m overall, Gudvangen is 74.9 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5137286 this registry holds 9 other vessels, whose median build year is 1954 and which range from 1939 to 1963. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1954.
Its IMO number, 5137286, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 1×6 + 3×5 + 7×4 + 2×3 + 8×2 = 106 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.
