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Largest in this registry
#44,387
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#25,378
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#6
of 8 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
Champion Jet 1 is a high-speed catamaran ferry owned and operated by Seajets. Launched in 1997, she was initially chartered to Condor Ferries as Condor Vitesse for services between Weymouth, the Channel Islands and St Malo. Between 1999 and 2000, she was chartered to Tranz Rail in New Zealand for its Interislander service, marketed as The Lynx, whilst maintaining her Condor name. She returned to Condor Ferries in 2000, which later purchased the ferry outright in 2002. She once again saw use on Channel Island services, as well as summer operations for Brittany Ferries. In 2015, she was sold to Seajets as Champion Jet 1. She was chartered to Naviera Armas between 2018 and 2020, returning to Seajets shortly after. She currently operates in the Aegean Sea.
Vessel particulars
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
Construction
Measurements
In context
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 5,007 gross tons, Champion Jet 1 is the 44,387th 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 1.2 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 25,378th by tonnage — larger than 49% 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.
Cyprus is the country of registry for 1,418 vessels in this directory, of which Champion Jet 1 is the 1,057th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (915 ships), and the median vessel measures 15,666 GT. Browse every ship flagged Cyprus.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 915 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Cyprus flag, of which 703 are larger by tonnage.
Champion Jet 1 was built in 1997, making it 29 years old. It is one of 1,319 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,388 GT; within it this ship is the 745th 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 47 vessels to Incat, with a median tonnage of 5,537 GT, delivered between 1986 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 86.0 m overall, Champion Jet 1 is 29.0 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 26.0 m and a draft of 3.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9151008 this registry holds 45 other vessels, whose median build year is 1997 and which range from 1995 to 1999. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1997.
Its IMO number, 9151008, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 5×5 + 1×4 + 0×3 + 0×2 = 98 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among vessels this registry holds no type classification for
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Almirante | 1909 | 5,010 |
| Heng Yin | 1974 | 5,008 |
| Gretaston | 1924 | 5,008 |
| Champion Jet 1 (this ship) | 1997 | 5,007 |
| Delta North | 1996 | 5,006 |
| Tinka | 1992 | 5,006 |
| Samudra Suraksha |
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Champion Jet 1 on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Chris Sampson, reused under CC BY 2.0.
| 1982 |
| 5,006 |