At 969 gross tons, MS «Hardangerfjord» is the 66,398th 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 6.2 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 37,426th by tonnage — larger than 25% 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.
Kazakhstan is the country of registry for 39 vessels in this directory, of which MS «Hardangerfjord» is the 23rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (30 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,910 GT. Browse every ship flagged Kazakhstan.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 30 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Kazakhstan flag, of which 18 are larger by tonnage.
MS «Hardangerfjord» was built in 1959, making it 67 years old. It is one of 245 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 517 GT; within it this ship is the 43rd 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 52.0 m overall, MS «Hardangerfjord» is 63.0 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5142750 this registry holds 15 other vessels, whose median build year is 1959 and which range from 1925 to 1962. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1959.
Its IMO number, 5142750, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 1×6 + 4×5 + 2×4 + 7×3 + 5×2 = 100 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.
