At 24,528 gross tons, MS Sagafjord is the 23,356th 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 4.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 312th by tonnage — larger than 38% 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 Sagafjord is the 496th 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 13 are larger by tonnage.
MS Sagafjord was built in 1965, making it 61 years old. It is one of 378 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 695 GT; within it this ship is the 8th 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 4 vessels to Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, with a median tonnage of 6,929 GT, delivered between 1947 and 1965. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 188.9 m overall, MS Sagafjord is 9.3 m shorter than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 24.5 m and a draft of 8.3 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 6416043 this registry holds 13 other vessels, whose median build year is 1964 and which range from 1964 to 1965. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1965.
Its IMO number, 6416043, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 6×7 + 4×6 + 1×5 + 6×4 + 0×3 + 4×2 = 103 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.
