At 39,178 gross tons, MS Stena Spirit is the 14,247th 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 6.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 22nd by tonnage — larger than 98% 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.
The Bahamas is the country of registry for 1,614 vessels in this directory, of which MS Stena Spirit is the 647th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (940 ships), and the median vessel measures 30,020 GT. Browse every ship flagged The Bahamas.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 13 ferrys flying the The Bahamas flag, of which none is larger than MS Stena Spirit.
MS Stena Spirit was built in 1983, making it 43 years old. It is one of 1,578 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,112 GT; within it this ship is the 61st 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 175 vessels to Gdańsk Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 9,899 GT, delivered between 1930 and 2014. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 175.4 m overall, MS Stena Spirit is 71.4 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 30.8 m and a draft of 6.8 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7907661 this registry holds 43 other vessels, whose median build year is 1980 and which range from 1978 to 2008. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1983.
Its IMO number, 7907661, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 9×6 + 0×5 + 7×4 + 6×3 + 6×2 = 161 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.
