At 218 gross tons, S/S Blidösund is the 80,365th 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 27 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 842nd by tonnage — larger than 5% 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.
Sweden is the country of registry for 370 vessels in this directory, of which S/S Blidösund is the 220th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (195 ships), and the median vessel measures 972 GT. Browse every ship flagged Sweden.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 48 ferrys flying the Sweden flag, of which 32 are larger by tonnage.
S/S Blidösund was built in 1911, making it 115 years old. It is one of 45 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,352 GT; within it this ship is the 34th largest. Across the whole of the 1910s the registry holds 482 vessels, median 1,868 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 90 vessels to Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstad, with a median tonnage of 11,582 GT, delivered between 1907 and 1978. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 35.3 m overall, S/S Blidösund is 68.7 m shorter than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record and a draft of 2.4 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8424484 this registry holds 30 other vessels, whose median build year is 1954 and which range from 1911 to 1985. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1911.
Its IMO number, 8424484, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 4×6 + 2×5 + 4×4 + 4×3 + 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.
