At 35,483 gross tons, MS Bahamas Celebration is the 16,196th 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 5.9 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 29th by tonnage — larger than 97% 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.
Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which MS Bahamas Celebration is the 318th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,126 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,102 GT. Browse every ship flagged Norway.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 188 ferrys flying the Norway flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.
MS Bahamas Celebration was built in 1981, making it 45 years old. It is one of 1,653 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,186 GT; within it this ship is the 131st 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 205.3 m overall, MS Bahamas Celebration is 101.3 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 26.6 m and a draft of 7.4 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7904891 this registry holds 40 other vessels, whose median build year is 1980 and which range from 1979 to 1982. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1981.
Its IMO number, 7904891, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 9×6 + 0×5 + 4×4 + 8×3 + 9×2 = 161 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.
