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Largest in this registry
#25,506
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#14,220
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#1
of 27 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
MV Coastal Celebration is the third and final Coastal-class ship to be delivered to BC Ferries. The class comprises some of the largest double-ended ferries in the world. The vessel completed construction in 2008 and entered service the same year. Unlike her sister ships, Coastal Renaissance and Coastal Inspiration, Coastal Celebration was equipped with a Pacific Buffet for service on the Swartz Bay to Tsawwassen route, until it was discontinued during the COVID-19 pandemic, and then closed permanently in June 2023.
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 21,777 gross tons, MV Coastal Celebration is the 25,506th 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 3.6 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 14,220th by tonnage — larger than 71% 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.
Canada is the country of registry for 633 vessels in this directory, of which MV Coastal Celebration is the 45th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (404 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,800 GT. Browse every ship flagged Canada.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 404 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Canada flag, of which 21 are larger by tonnage.
MV Coastal Celebration was built in 2008, making it 18 years old. It is one of 2,764 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,971 GT; within it this ship is the 946th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 118 vessels to Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, with a median tonnage of 24,046 GT, delivered between 1900 and 2022. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 160.0 m overall, MV Coastal Celebration is 45.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 28.2 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9332779 this registry holds 71 other vessels, whose median build year is 2007 and which range from 1970 to 2009. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2008.
Its IMO number, 9332779, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 3×5 + 2×4 + 7×3 + 7×2 = 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 vessels this registry holds no type classification for
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Darya Tapti | 2015 | 21,801 |
| Seal Island | 2015 | 21,801 |
| MV Cape Trinity | 1994 | 21,782 |
| MV Coastal Celebration (this ship) | 2008 | 21,777 |
| Gold Star | 1984 | 21,771 |
| Morning Charm | 1978 | 21,757 |
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 summaryQuoted from MV Coastal Celebration on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Kam Abbott, reused under CC BY 2.0.
| Icarus II |
| 1975 |
| 21,756 |