MS Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze

MS Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze was built in 1959, making it 67 years old. It is one of 245 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 517 GT. Across the whole of the 1950s the registry holds 2,005 vessels, median 960 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 229 vessels to Meyer Wismar, with a median tonnage of 16,994 GT, delivered between 1957 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 122.2 m overall, MS Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze is 76.0 m shorter than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 16.0 m and a draft of 5.2 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5404677 this registry holds 15 other vessels, whose median build year is 1963 and which range from 1949 to 1963. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1959.

Its IMO number, 5404677, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 4×6 + 0×5 + 4×4 + 6×3 + 7×2 = 107 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.