MS Fru Inger

At 461 gross tons, MS Fru Inger is the 74,845th 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 42,309th 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 Fru Inger is the 2,096th 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 1,366 are larger by tonnage.

MS Fru Inger was built in 1950, making it 76 years old. It is one of 153 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 555 GT; within it this ship is the 32nd largest. 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 27 vessels to Aker Solutions Stord, with a median tonnage of 39,084 GT, delivered between 1947 and 2010. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 142.8 m overall, MS Fru Inger is 27.8 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 27.6 m and a draft of 8.7 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5122097 this registry holds 14 other vessels, whose median build year is 1955 and which range from 1942 to 1961. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1950.

Its IMO number, 5122097, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 1×6 + 2×5 + 2×4 + 0×3 + 9×2 = 77 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.