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Largest in this registry
#56,239
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#31,874
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
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No operator attributed to this ship
In brief
Khersones or Chersones is a Crimean three-mast tall ship, a full-rigged ship. It was built in 1989 in Gdańsk Shipyard, Poland, in a series of six sister ships (among which also the Mir), after the designs of Polish naval architect Zygmunt Choreń. The ship is named after the city of Chersonesus an ancient city and archaeological site near Sevastopol.
She partakes in many windjammer regattas. In 1997, it became the first Ukrainian ship to sail around Cape Horn by only using her sails.
From 1991 to 2006 Khersones was a training ship for the Admiral Ushakov Maritime State University in Kerch, Crimea. At the same time, it was rented to the tourism company Inmaris Maritime Service GmbH as a cruise ship. This agreement was terminated in 2006 as Inmaris accused the Ukrainian side of refusing to pay for repairs that Inmaris had ordered, and to avoid an arrest on the vessel, it was then moved permanently to the docks in the Port of Kerch.
After the Russian occupation of Crimea in 2014, the ship was seized by Russian authorities. A dispute over control of the ship began between the Federal Agency for Fishery of Russia and the Ministry of Transport, with the Ministry gaining the upper hand with its subsidiary FGUP Rosmorport. In 2015 the ship traveled to the Sevastopol Shipyard for repairs, and later made its home port in the city due to the construction of the Crimean Bridge near Kerch.
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 2,284 gross tons, Khersones is the 56,239th 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 2.6 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 31,874th by tonnage — larger than 36% 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.
Russia is the country of registry for 2,810 vessels in this directory, of which Khersones is the 1,307th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (830 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,293 GT. Browse every ship flagged Russia.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 830 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Russia flag, of which 403 are larger by tonnage.
Khersones was built in 1989, making it 37 years old. It is one of 1,131 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,938 GT; within it this ship is the 517th 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 175 vessels to Gdańsk Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 9,899 GT, delivered between 1930 and 2014. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 108.6 m overall, Khersones is 6.4 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 14.0 m and a draft of 6.6 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8511835 this registry holds 32 other vessels, whose median build year is 1986 and which range from 1985 to 1997. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1989.
Its IMO number, 8511835, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 5×6 + 1×5 + 1×4 + 8×3 + 3×2 = 125 — 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 vessels this registry holds no type classification for
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Caballo Bucefalo | 1980 | 2,285 |
| Alstern | 1971 | 2,285 |
| Harta 1 | 1978 | 2,285 |
| Khersones (this ship) | 1989 | 2,284 |
| Ievoli Black | 2010 | 2,283 |
| Ievoli Blue | 2010 | 2,283 |
| Day Tide |
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.
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Khersones (ship) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy The original uploader was DirkvdM at English Wikipedia., reused under CC BY 1.0.
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