At 66,671 gross tons, Vigdis Knutsen is the 6,806th 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 11 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 2,402 tankers held here, it ranks 139th by tonnage — larger than 94% of that group. Their median tonnage is 8,256 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 42,340 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (219 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 175 hulls on record.
United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which Vigdis Knutsen is the 124th largest by tonnage. 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 36 tankers flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 5 are larger by tonnage.
Vigdis Knutsen was built in 1993, making it 33 years old. It is one of 1,073 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,586 GT; within it this ship is the 72nd largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 1,092 vessels to HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 65,131 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 264.4 m overall, Vigdis Knutsen is 125.4 m longer than the 139.0 m median for tankers on record, with a beam of 42.5 m and a draft of 15.2 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9052989 this registry holds 32 other vessels, whose median build year is 1993 and which range from 1991 to 1998. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1993.
Its IMO number, 9052989, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 0×6 + 5×5 + 2×4 + 9×3 + 8×2 = 139 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
