MS Vela

At 1,344 gross tons, MS Vela is the 62,882nd 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 4.5 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 35,456th by tonnage — larger than 29% 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 Vela is the 1,685th 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 1,114 are larger by tonnage.

MS Vela was built in 1946, making it 80 years old. It is one of 79 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,270 GT; within it this ship is the 17th largest. Across the whole of the 1940s the registry holds 1,039 vessels, median 4,053 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 90 vessels to Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstad, with a median tonnage of 11,582 GT, delivered between 1907 and 1978. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 80.4 m overall, MS Vela is 34.6 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 12.3 m and a draft of 4.3 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5377630 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.