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Cruise ship
Operated by Costa Cruises
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No gross tonnage is recorded for this vessel, so it cannot be ranked by size. Rank is only shown where the underlying measurement exists.
In brief
MS Oslofjord was a combined ocean liner/cruise ship built in 1949 by Netherlands Dock and Shipbuilding Company in Amsterdam, Netherlands for Norwegian America Line. As built she was 16,844 gross register tons, and could carry 620 passengers.
In an incident that made international news, in January 1957, while in drydock in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA, the MS Oslofjord tipped over and crashed against another ship. Eight crew members were injured and two were hospitalized. Two hundred other crew members were trapped inside the ship for more than an hour before being rescued.
In 1967–1968 she was chartered to Greek Line and from 1968 onwards to Costa Crociere, who renamed her MS Fulvia in 1969. Following an explosion in the engine room, the Fulvia caught fire near the Canary Isles on 19 July 1970, and had to be evacuated. She sank on 20 July 1970 while being towed to Tenerife.
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.
Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory. 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.
Oslofjord was built in 1949, making it 77 years old. It is one of 107 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,256 GT. 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 19 vessels to Nederlandsche Dok en Scheepsbouw Maatschappij, with a median tonnage of 7,546 GT, delivered between 1937 and 1963. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 166.2 m overall, Oslofjord is 31.9 m shorter than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 22.0 m and a draft of 7.7 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5266221 this registry holds 18 other vessels, whose median build year is 1954 and which range from 1906 to 1962. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1949.
Its IMO number, 5266221, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 2×6 + 6×5 + 6×4 + 2×3 + 2×2 = 111 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by IMO number
| Ship | IMO | Built |
|---|---|---|
| Dida | 5266219 | 1962 |
| Osijek | 5266154 | 1955 |
| SS Oshkosh Victory | 5266128 | — |
| MV Östanå I | 5266348 | 1906 |
Record
Events recorded against this vessel in the source, with the dates the source gives. An event with no date is listed last rather than assigned one.
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 MS Oslofjord (1949) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Unknown authorUnknown author, reused under Public domain.