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Largest in this registry
#28,622
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest ferry
#138
of 882 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#1
of 3 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
Helix Producer I is a ship-shaped monohull floating production and offloading vessel, converted from the ferry MV Karl Carstens. It has no storage capability.
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 17,357 gross tons, Helix Producer 1 is the 28,622nd 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 2.9 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 138th by tonnage — larger than 84% of that group. Their median tonnage is 3,908 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 25,454 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Japan (241 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with 34 hulls on record.
The Bahamas is the country of registry for 1,614 vessels in this directory, of which Helix Producer 1 is the 1,073rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (940 ships), and the median vessel measures 30,020 GT. Browse every ship flagged The Bahamas.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 13 ferrys flying the The Bahamas flag, of which 8 are larger by tonnage.
Helix Producer 1 was built in 1986, making it 40 years old. It is one of 866 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,769 GT; within it this ship is the 244th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 210 vessels to Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, with a median tonnage of 30,285 GT, delivered between 1905 and 2010. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 164.7 m overall, Helix Producer 1 is 60.7 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 17.7 m and a draft of 5.9 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8420115 this registry holds 53 other vessels, whose median build year is 1986 and which range from 1984 to 1990. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1986.
Its IMO number, 8420115, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 4×6 + 2×5 + 0×4 + 1×3 + 1×2 = 95 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among ferrys
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Northern Expedition | 2009 | 17,729 |
| Norbay | 1994 | 17,464 |
| Suisen | 2012 | 17,382 |
| Helix Producer 1 (this ship) | 1986 | 17,357 |
| Hakuou | 1996 | 17,345 |
| Suisen | 1996 | 17,329 |
| Orange Ace |
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 Helix Producer 1 on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Helix ESG, reused under CC BY-SA 2.0.
| 1989 |
| 17,022 |