At 4,978 gross tons, Normand Skipper is the 44,575th 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 1.2 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,423 offshore supplys held here, it ranks 137th by tonnage — larger than 90% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,061 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 4,961 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (283 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is North American Shipbuilding, with 55 hulls on record.
Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which Normand Skipper is the 956th 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 57 offshore supplys flying the Norway flag, of which 15 are larger by tonnage.
Normand Skipper was built in 2005, making it 21 years old. It is one of 1,690 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,046 GT; within it this ship is the 1,024th 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 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 92.0 m overall, Normand Skipper is 24.9 m longer than the 67.1 m median for offshore supplys on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9331268 this registry holds 74 other vessels, whose median build year is 2006 and which range from 2004 to 2011. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2005.
Its IMO number, 9331268, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 3×5 + 1×4 + 2×3 + 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.
