At 2,728 gross tons, Karmsund is the 53,581st 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 2.2 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,085 multi-purposes held here, it ranks 567th by tonnage — larger than 40% 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 Karmsund is the 1,370th 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 34 are larger by tonnage.
Karmsund was built in 1979, making it 47 years old. It is one of 1,718 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,382 GT; within it this ship is the 698th largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 14 vessels to Brødrene Lothe, with a median tonnage of 351 GT, delivered between 1957 and 1982. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 89.4 m overall, Karmsund is within a metre of the 90.0 m median length for multi-purposes on record, with a beam of 14.5 m and a draft of 4.6 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7724203 this registry holds 51 other vessels, whose median build year is 1979 and which range from 1977 to 1980. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1979.
Its IMO number, 7724203, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 7×6 + 2×5 + 4×4 + 2×3 + 0×2 = 123 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.
