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Largest in this registry
#58,989
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest ro-ro
#564
of 799 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#2
of 3 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
Vessel particulars
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
Construction
Measurements
In context
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.
At 1,859 gross tons, Münsterland is the 58,989th 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 3.2 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 877 ro-ros held here, it ranks 564th by tonnage — larger than 29% of that group. Their median tonnage is 7,395 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 34,011 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Italy (62 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, with 16 hulls on record.
Germany is the country of registry for 885 vessels in this directory, of which Münsterland is the 277th 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 12 ro-ros flying the Germany flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.
Münsterland 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 555th 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 78.7 m overall, Münsterland is 46.3 m shorter than the 125.0 m median for ro-ros on record, with a beam of 12.0 m and a draft of 2.6 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8601989 this registry holds 18 other vessels, whose median build year is 1986 and which range from 1985 to 1988. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1986.
Its IMO number, 8601989, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 6×6 + 0×5 + 1×4 + 9×3 + 8×2 = 139 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among ro-ros
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Dharma Ferry 3 | 1996 | 1,944 |
| Giuseppe Franza | 1992 | 1,914 |
| «Kugelbake» | 2009 | 1,868 |
| Münsterland (this ship) | 1986 | 1,859 |
| Destiny | 1971 | 1,817 |
| Jolly Azzurro | 1971 | 1,804 |
| Frisia III |
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryNo English Wikipedia article is linked to this vessel, so no summary is shown.
PhotographBy W. Bulach, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
| 2015 |
| 1,786 |