Viking Prince

At 5,381 gross tons, Viking Prince is the 43,368th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 24,805th by tonnage — larger than 50% 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 Viking Prince is the 921st 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 640 are larger by tonnage.

Viking Prince was built in 2012, making it 14 years old. It is one of 2,747 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 1,886th 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 103 vessels to Kleven Verft, with a median tonnage of 5,388 GT, delivered between 1963 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 89.6 m overall, Viking Prince is 25.4 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record and a draft of 7.6 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9596296 this registry holds 60 other vessels, whose median build year is 2012 and which range from 2010 to 2020. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2012.

Its IMO number, 9596296, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 5×6 + 9×5 + 6×4 + 2×3 + 9×2 = 186 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.