Vikingland

At 20,871 gross tons, Vikingland is the 26,112th 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 3.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 877 ro-ros held here, it ranks 187th by tonnage — larger than 77% 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.

Sweden is the country of registry for 370 vessels in this directory, of which Vikingland is the 43rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (195 ships), and the median vessel measures 972 GT. Browse every ship flagged Sweden.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 17 ro-ros flying the Sweden flag, of which 8 are larger by tonnage.

Vikingland was built in 1979, making it 47 years old. It is one of 1,718 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,382 GT; within it this ship is the 129th largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 53 vessels to Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 31,820 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2017. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 191.0 m overall, Vikingland is 66.0 m longer than the 125.0 m median for ro-ros on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7718541 this registry holds 56 other vessels, whose median build year is 1978 and which range from 1977 to 1980. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1979.

Its IMO number, 7718541, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 7×6 + 1×5 + 8×4 + 5×3 + 4×2 = 151 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.