At 28,518 gross tons, MS Albatros is the 20,920th 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 4.8 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 300th by tonnage — larger than 41% of that group. Their median tonnage is 43,009 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 143,289 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is The Bahamas (133 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Fincantieri, with 112 hulls on record.
Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which MS Albatros is the 458th 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 25 cruise ships flying the Norway flag, of which 12 are larger by tonnage.
MS Albatros was built in 1973, making it 53 years old. It is one of 2,097 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,435 GT; within it this ship is the 202nd 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 118 vessels to Wärtsilä, with a median tonnage of 14,058 GT, delivered between 1938 and 1998. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 205.5 m overall, MS Albatros is 7.3 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 25.2 m and a draft of 7.3 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7304314 this registry holds 62 other vessels, whose median build year is 1973 and which range from 1950 to 1973. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1973.
Its IMO number, 7304314, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 3×6 + 0×5 + 4×4 + 3×3 + 1×2 = 94 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
