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Largest in this registry
#37,309
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#21,278
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#3
of 9 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
European Supporter was a vessel that performed a number of roles during its career. Built in 1996 as the offshore supply vessel Viking Lady for Norwegian shipping company Eidesvik Shipping, the ship was converted into a cable layer in 2000 and renamed Oceanic Viking. It was chartered to the Australian Customs Marine Unit through P&O Maritime Logistics from 2004 to 2010. In 2011, it was renamed European Supporter and transferred to the United Kingdom.
Vessel particulars
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
Construction
Measurements
In context
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 9,075 gross tons, MV Oceanic Viking is the 37,309th 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 1.5 times 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 21,278th by tonnage — larger than 57% 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.
United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which MV Oceanic Viking is the 397th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,835 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 203 are larger by tonnage.
MV Oceanic Viking was built in 1996, making it 30 years old. It is one of 1,254 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,254 GT; within it this ship is the 576th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 60 vessels to Flekkefjord Slipp & Maskinfabrikk AS, with a median tonnage of 1,808 GT, delivered between 1961 and 2008. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 110.0 m overall, MV Oceanic Viking is 5.0 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 22.0 m and a draft of 6.8 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9126584 this registry holds 60 other vessels, whose median build year is 1996 and which range from 1995 to 2001. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1996.
Its IMO number, 9126584, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 2×5 + 6×4 + 5×3 + 8×2 = 134 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among vessels this registry holds no type classification for
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Masan | 1977 | 9,077 |
| Hernes | 1977 | 9,077 |
| Elena | 1977 | 9,077 |
| MV Oceanic Viking (this ship) | 1996 | 9,075 |
| Skandi Seven | 2008 | 9,074 |
| Skandi Santos | 2009 | 9,074 |
| Amer Everest |
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from European Supporter on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Nachoman-au, reused under CC BY-SA 3.0.
| 1989 |
| 9,072 |