Passenger vessel
DS «Stord»
Operated by Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap
Photo: Hardanger og Voss Museum · Public domain · file
Largest in this registry
#76,388
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest passenger vessel
#376
of 490 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#18
of 33 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
About DS «Stord»
The Norwegian vintage steamship SS Stord I was built as Stord in 1913 and delivered from Laxevaag Maskin- og Jernskipsbyggeri in Bergen, Norway to Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap (HSD).
She was 376 gross tons.
The vessel sailed in regular traffic from 1913 to 1969. Stord I is a typical representative of the local passenger steamers built for operating between Stavanger-Sunnhordland-Hardanger and Bergen.
In 1931, Stord I was rebuilt and modernised. 465 gross tons.
From 1947 to 1949 she was again rebuilt at Bergens Mekaniske Verksteder, Solheimsviken, Bergen as a motorship with the installation of two, 12-cylinder Paxman-Ricardo diesels. 469 gross tons.
On 2 October 1962 she collided with Fred Olsen's Bravo near Knarrevik.
In 1969 she was sold to Oslo Krets av det Blå Kors and renamed MV O T. Moe. She was berthed in Oslo as a floating welfare centre for alcoholics.
In 1980 she was sold to Norsk Veteranskibsklub and transferred to Veteranskipslaget Fjordabåten, Bergen with a view to preservation. She was restored to 1931-condition, including the installation of engines from a 1942 steam-driven British vessel. Technical trials were run. Gutted by fire en route from Sunnhordland to Bergen on 20 May 1987.
The ship is under restoration again by Veteranskipslaget Fjordabåten. Technical trials were run in August 2005.
Vessel particulars
Identification and dimensions
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
- IMO number
- 5341564
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- 257786980
- Call sign
- LEYT
- Flag state
- Norway
- Port of registry
- Bergen
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Passenger vessel
- Yard number
- 110
- Launched
- —
- Year built
- 1913
- Designed to carry
- —
- Owner
- Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap
- Operator on record
- Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap
Measurements
- Gross tonnage
- 376
- Net tonnage
- —
- Displacement
- —
- Length overall
- 54.0 m
- Beam
- —
- Draft
- —
- Service speed
- 11.0 kn
In context
How DS «Stord» compares
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 376 gross tons, DS «Stord» is the 76,388th 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 16 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 617 passenger vessels held here, it ranks 376th by tonnage — larger than 23% of that group. Their median tonnage is 909 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 9,718 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Egypt (65 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Meyer Werft, with 16 hulls on record.
Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which DS «Stord» is the 2,182nd 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 34 passenger vessels flying the Norway flag, of which 13 are larger by tonnage.
DS «Stord» was built in 1913, making it 113 years old. It is one of 46 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,728 GT; within it this ship is the 27th largest. Across the whole of the 1910s the registry holds 482 vessels, median 1,868 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 4 vessels to Laxevaag Maskin & Jernskibsbyggeri, with a median tonnage of 1,050 GT, delivered between 1900 and 1930. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 54.0 m overall, DS «Stord» is 7.0 m shorter than the 61.0 m median for passenger vessels on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5341564 this registry holds 16 other vessels, whose median build year is 1955 and which range from 1908 to 1960. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1913.
Its IMO number, 5341564, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 3×6 + 4×5 + 1×4 + 5×3 + 6×2 = 104 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
Same fleet
Other ships operated by Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap
Provenance
Where this page comes from
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from SS Stord I on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Hardanger og Voss Museum, reused under Public domain.