At 422 gross tons, First Ferry VI is the 75,559th 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 14 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 42,894th by tonnage — larger than 14% 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.
Hong Kong is the country of registry for 2,385 vessels in this directory, of which First Ferry VI is the 2,297th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,478 ships), and the median vessel measures 33,042 GT. Browse every ship flagged Hong Kong.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,478 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Hong Kong flag, of which 1,422 are larger by tonnage.
First Ferry VI was built in 2001, making it 25 years old. It is one of 1,268 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 14,062 GT; within it this ship is the 1,107th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 30 vessels to Marinteknik, with a median tonnage of 398 GT, delivered between 1978 and 2008. See the rest of that yard’s output.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9248069 this registry holds 63 other vessels, whose median build year is 2002 and which range from 2001 to 2006. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2001.
Its IMO number, 9248069, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 4×5 + 8×4 + 0×3 + 6×2 = 139 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
