At 5,762 gross tons, MS «Red Star 1» is the 42,487th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 378th by tonnage — larger than 57% 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.
Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which MS «Red Star 1» is the 7,037th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 16 ferrys flying the Panama flag, of which 11 are larger by tonnage.
MS «Red Star 1» was built in 1965, making it 61 years old. It is one of 378 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 695 GT; within it this ship is the 21st 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 35 vessels to Orenstein & Koppel, with a median tonnage of 4,795 GT, delivered between 1927 and 1990. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 99.0 m overall, MS «Red Star 1» is 5.0 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 6511128 this registry holds 20 other vessels, whose median build year is 1965 and which range from 1944 to 1965. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1965.
Its IMO number, 6511128, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 6×7 + 5×6 + 1×5 + 1×4 + 1×3 + 2×2 = 88 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.
