Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory. 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.
MF Vikingen was built in 1957, making it 69 years old. It is one of 261 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,300 GT. 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.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7829259 this registry holds 16 other vessels, whose median build year is 1978 and which range from 1906 to 1979. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1957.
Its IMO number, 7829259, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 8×6 + 2×5 + 9×4 + 2×3 + 5×2 = 159 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
