MS Winston Churchill

At 8,657 gross tons, MS Winston Churchill is the 37,874th 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 1.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 315th by tonnage — larger than 64% 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.

North Korea is the country of registry for 207 vessels in this directory, of which MS Winston Churchill is the 53rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (119 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,522 GT. Browse every ship flagged North Korea.

MS Winston Churchill was built in 1967, making it 59 years old. It is one of 496 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 757 GT; within it this ship is the 27th 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 16 vessels to Cantieri Navali del Tirreno Riuniti, with a median tonnage of 7,187 GT, delivered between 1948 and 1981. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 140.7 m overall, MS Winston Churchill is 36.7 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 20.5 m and a draft of 5.6 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 6718233 this registry holds 13 other vessels, whose median build year is 1967 and which range from 1919 to 1967. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1967.

Its IMO number, 6718233, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 6×7 + 7×6 + 1×5 + 8×4 + 2×3 + 3×2 = 133 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.