Hordafor VI

At 1,721 gross tons, Hordafor VI is the 59,783rd 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 3.5 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,402 tankers held here, it ranks 1,926th by tonnage — larger than 15% of that group. Their median tonnage is 8,256 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 42,340 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (219 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 175 hulls on record.

Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which Hordafor VI is the 1,582nd 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 73 tankers flying the Norway flag, of which 60 are larger by tonnage.

Hordafor VI was built in 1991, making it 35 years old. It is one of 1,166 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,997 GT; within it this ship is the 741st largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 43 vessels to Nordsøværftet, with a median tonnage of 1,544 GT, delivered between 1969 and 1997. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 83.5 m overall, Hordafor VI is 55.5 m shorter than the 139.0 m median for tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8820286 this registry holds 46 other vessels, whose median build year is 1989 and which range from 1988 to 1992. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1991.

Its IMO number, 8820286, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 8×6 + 2×5 + 0×4 + 2×3 + 8×2 = 136 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.