Princess Selandia

United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory. 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 40 ferrys flying the United Kingdom flag.

Princess Selandia was built in 1951, making it 75 years old. It is one of 151 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 722 GT. Across the whole of the 1950s the registry holds 2,005 vessels, median 960 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 56 vessels to Elsinore Shipyard and Machine Construction, with a median tonnage of 6,332 GT, delivered between 1919 and 1984. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 110.4 m overall, Princess Selandia is 6.4 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 17.7 m and a draft of 4.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5093959 this registry holds 13 other vessels, whose median build year is 1950 and which range from 1909 to 1961. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1951.

Its IMO number, 5093959, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 0×6 + 9×5 + 3×4 + 9×3 + 5×2 = 129 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.