At 16,151 gross tons, MS Midnatsol is the 29,968th 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 2.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 148th by tonnage — larger than 83% of that group. Their median tonnage is 3,908 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 25,454 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Japan (241 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with 34 hulls on record.
Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which MS Midnatsol is the 603rd 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 188 ferrys flying the Norway flag, of which 4 are larger by tonnage.
MS Midnatsol was built in 2003, making it 23 years old. It is one of 1,383 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,954 GT; within it this ship is the 632nd largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 50 vessels to Fosen Yard, with a median tonnage of 6,764 GT, delivered between 1973 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 135.8 m overall, MS Midnatsol is 31.8 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 21.5 m and a draft of 5.1 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9247728 this registry holds 71 other vessels, whose median build year is 2002 and which range from 2001 to 2004. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2003.
Its IMO number, 9247728, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 4×5 + 7×4 + 7×3 + 2×2 = 148 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.
