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Cruise ship

MS Sounds of Orient

IMO 5186196Built 1962

Operated by Far Eastern Shipping Company

Photo: Akitoshi Iio · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file

No gross tonnage is recorded for this vessel, so it cannot be ranked by size. Rank is only shown where the underlying measurement exists.

In brief

About MS Sounds of Orient

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MS Sounds of Orient was an ocean liner owned since 1988 by Crosby Corp. Ltd in Panama. She was built in 1962 by VEB Mathias-Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany as Khabarovsk for the Soviet Union's Far East Shipping Company. The ship was used for service between Nakhodka and Yokohama, Japan. It was named after the largest city and the administrative center of Khabarovsk Krai, Soviet Union Khabarovsk.

Quoted from MS Sounds of Orient on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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: 5186196
IMO check digit: Valid
MMSI

In context

How MS Sounds of Orient 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.

MS Sounds of Orient was built in 1962, making it 64 years old. It is one of 285 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 924 GT. 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 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 Sounds of Orient is 76.0 m shorter than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 16.1 m and a draft of 5.2 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5186196 this registry holds 11 other vessels, whose median build year is 1956 and which range from 1916 to 1962. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1962.

Its IMO number, 5186196, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 1×6 + 8×5 + 6×4 + 1×3 + 9×2 = 126 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.