Viking Grace

At 57,565 gross tons, Viking Grace is the 8,500th 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 9.6 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 877 ro-ros held here, it ranks 20th by tonnage — larger than 98% of that group. Their median tonnage is 7,395 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 34,011 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Italy (62 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, with 16 hulls on record.

Finland is the country of registry for 249 vessels in this directory, of which Viking Grace is the 9th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (110 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,673 GT. Browse every ship flagged Finland.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 30 ro-ros flying the Finland flag, of which 5 are larger by tonnage.

Viking Grace was built in 2013, making it 13 years old. It is one of 2,213 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 22,566 GT; within it this ship is the 309th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 37 vessels to STX Finland, with a median tonnage of 5,077 GT, delivered between 1956 and 2015. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 218.0 m overall, Viking Grace is 93.0 m longer than the 125.0 m median for ro-ros on record, with a beam of 31.8 m and a draft of 6.8 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9606900 this registry holds 67 other vessels, whose median build year is 2012 and which range from 2010 to 2015. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2013.

Its IMO number, 9606900, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 6×6 + 0×5 + 6×4 + 9×3 + 0×2 = 150 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.