At 406 gross tons, Flipper is the 75,781st 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 15 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 617 passenger vessels held here, it ranks 370th by tonnage — larger than 25% 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.
Germany is the country of registry for 885 vessels in this directory, of which Flipper is the 451st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (446 ships), and the median vessel measures 916 GT. Browse every ship flagged Germany.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 30 passenger vessels flying the Germany flag, of which 5 are larger by tonnage.
Flipper was built in 1977, making it 49 years old. It is one of 1,791 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 5,622 GT; within it this ship is the 1,477th 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.
At 46.6 m overall, Flipper is 14.4 m shorter than the 61.0 m median for passenger vessels on record, with a beam of 8.0 m and a draft of 1.2 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7641190 this registry holds 39 other vessels, whose median build year is 1976 and which range from 1945 to 1979. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1977.
Its IMO number, 7641190, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 6×6 + 4×5 + 1×4 + 1×3 + 9×2 = 130 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.
