At 6,261 gross tons, MS Vesterålen is the 41,482nd largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 373rd by tonnage — larger than 58% 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 Vesterålen is the 864th 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 26 are larger by tonnage.
MS Vesterålen was built in 1983, making it 43 years old. It is one of 1,578 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,112 GT; within it this ship is the 570th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 1 vessels to Harstad, Norway, with a median tonnage of 6,261 GT, delivered between 1983 and 1983. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 108.5 m overall, MS Vesterålen is 4.5 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 16.5 m and a draft of 4.6 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8019368 this registry holds 33 other vessels, whose median build year is 1981 and which range from 1979 to 1983. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1983.
Its IMO number, 8019368, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 0×6 + 1×5 + 9×4 + 3×3 + 6×2 = 118 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.
