At 2,604 gross tons, MS «Kong Olav» is the 54,160th 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 2.3 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 30,757th by tonnage — larger than 38% 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 «Kong Olav» is the 1,397th 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 942 are larger by tonnage.
MS «Kong Olav» 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 32nd 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 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.
At 87.4 m overall, MS «Kong Olav» is 27.6 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 13.3 m and a draft of 4.6 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 6401206 this registry holds 9 other vessels, whose median build year is 1963 and which range from 1963 to 1964. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1964.
Its IMO number, 6401206, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 6×7 + 4×6 + 0×5 + 1×4 + 2×3 + 0×2 = 76 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.
