Kirchdorf

At 265 gross tons, Kirchdorf is the 79,111th 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 23 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 823rd by tonnage — larger than 7% 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.

Germany is the country of registry for 885 vessels in this directory, of which Kirchdorf is the 528th 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 27 ferrys flying the Germany flag, of which 13 are larger by tonnage.

Kirchdorf was built in 1962, making it 64 years old. It is one of 285 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 924 GT; within it this ship is the 110th largest. Across the whole of the 1960s the registry holds 4,074 vessels, median 844 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 533 vessels to Pella Sietas, with a median tonnage of 3,999 GT, delivered between 1914 and 2020. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 30.1 m overall, Kirchdorf is 73.9 m shorter than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5188754 this registry holds 4 other vessels, whose median build year is 1956 and which range from 1936 to 1962. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1962.

Its IMO number, 5188754, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 1×6 + 8×5 + 8×4 + 7×3 + 5×2 = 144 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.