MSC Shirley

At 8,106 gross tons, MSC Shirley is the 38,622nd 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 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 22,105th by tonnage — larger than 56% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

Germany is the country of registry for 885 vessels in this directory, of which MSC Shirley is the 152nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (446 ships), and the median vessel measures 916 GT. Browse every ship flagged Germany.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 446 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Germany flag, of which 49 are larger by tonnage.

MSC Shirley was built in 1986, making it 40 years old. It is one of 866 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,769 GT; within it this ship is the 357th 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 45 vessels to Jansen-Werft, with a median tonnage of 2,726 GT, delivered between 1951 and 2016. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 133.0 m overall, MSC Shirley is 18.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8516603 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.