No gross tonnage is recorded for this vessel, so it cannot be ranked by size. Rank is only shown where the underlying measurement exists.
Vessel particulars
Identification and dimensions
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
- IMO number
- 5231563
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- Call sign
- Flag state
- United Kingdom
- Port of registry
- —
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Unclassified
- Builder
- Harland and Wolff
- Yard number
In context
How Melbourne Star compares
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.
United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,835 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the United Kingdom flag.
Melbourne Star was built in 1948, making it 78 years old. It is one of 123 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,126 GT. Across the whole of the 1940s the registry holds 1,039 vessels, median 4,053 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 124 vessels to Harland and Wolff, with a median tonnage of 12,002 GT, delivered between 1904 and 2003. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 174.5 m overall, Melbourne Star is 59.5 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5231563 this registry holds 6 other vessels, whose median build year is 1948 and which range from 1925 to 1961. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1948.
Its IMO number, 5231563, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 2×6 + 3×5 + 1×4 + 5×3 + 6×2 = 93 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by IMO number
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at Harland and Wolff
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
Where this page comes from
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryNo English Wikipedia article is linked to this vessel, so no summary is shown.
PhotographNo freely licensed photograph of this vessel is held, so none is shown.
