At 1,218 gross tons, Ulla is the 63,937th 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 4.9 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 36,090th by tonnage — larger than 27% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.
Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which Ulla is the 1,713th 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 2,126 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Norway flag, of which 1,134 are larger by tonnage.
Ulla was built in 1989, making it 37 years old. It is one of 1,131 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,938 GT; within it this ship is the 640th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 30 vessels to Trønderverftet, with a median tonnage of 1,208 GT, delivered between 1976 and 2000. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 64.5 m overall, Ulla is 50.5 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record and a draft of 4.2 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8906559 this registry holds 64 other vessels, whose median build year is 1990 and which range from 1988 to 1996. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1989.
Its IMO number, 8906559, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 9×6 + 0×5 + 6×4 + 5×3 + 5×2 = 159 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
