At 11,204 gross tons, Kong Harald is the 34,427th 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 1.9 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 254th by tonnage — larger than 71% of that group. Their median tonnage is 3,908 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 25,454 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Japan (241 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with 34 hulls on record.
Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which Kong Harald is the 706th 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 188 ferrys flying the Norway flag, of which 12 are larger by tonnage.
Kong Harald was built in 1993, making it 33 years old. It is one of 1,073 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,586 GT; within it this ship is the 337th 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 216 vessels to Volkswerft, with a median tonnage of 3,869 GT, delivered between 1955 and 2016. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 121.8 m overall, Kong Harald is 17.8 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 19.2 m and a draft of 4.7 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9039119 this registry holds 53 other vessels, whose median build year is 1993 and which range from 1991 to 1995. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1993.
Its IMO number, 9039119, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 0×6 + 3×5 + 9×4 + 1×3 + 1×2 = 119 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
