MS Fantasy

At 27,362 gross tons, MS Fantasy is the 21,533rd 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 4.6 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 71st by tonnage — larger than 92% 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.

Saint Kitts and Nevis is the country of registry for 545 vessels in this directory, of which MS Fantasy is the 116th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (324 ships), and the median vessel measures 10,964 GT. Browse every ship flagged Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 6 ferrys flying the Saint Kitts and Nevis flag, of which none is larger than MS Fantasy.

MS Fantasy 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 146th 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 104 vessels to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 21,438 GT, delivered between 1948 and 2020. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 187.1 m overall, MS Fantasy is 83.1 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 27.0 m and a draft of 6.8 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8814263 this registry holds 46 other vessels, whose median build year is 1990 and which range from 1988 to 1992. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1989.

Its IMO number, 8814263, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 8×6 + 1×5 + 4×4 + 2×3 + 6×2 = 143 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.