SS Orcades

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 37 cruise ships flying the United Kingdom flag.

SS Orcades was built in 1948, making it 78 years old. It is one of 123 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,126 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 21 vessels to Vickers-Armstrongs, with a median tonnage of 12,653 GT, delivered between 1931 and 2010. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 216.7 m overall, SS Orcades is 18.6 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 28.5 m and a draft of 9.4 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5264247 this registry holds 17 other vessels, whose median build year is 1956 and which range from 1926 to 1962. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1948.

Its IMO number, 5264247, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 2×6 + 6×5 + 4×4 + 2×3 + 4×2 = 107 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.