MS Akershus

At 474 gross tons, MS Akershus is the 74,626th 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 13 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 42,130th by tonnage — larger than 15% 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 MS Akershus is the 2,087th 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 1,359 are larger by tonnage.

MS Akershus was built in 1964, making it 62 years old. It is one of 309 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 909 GT; within it this ship is the 96th largest. Across the whole of the 1960s the registry holds 4,074 vessels, median 844 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 40 vessels to Rosenberg Mekaniske Verksted, with a median tonnage of 20,592 GT, delivered between 1918 and 1979. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 61.5 m overall, MS Akershus is 53.5 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 31.9 m and a draft of 8.4 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 6415831 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.