Ferry

MV Kennicott

IMO 9145205MMSI 368250000Call sign WCY2920United StatesBuilt 1998

Operated by Alaska Marine Highway

Largest in this registry

#32,771

of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage

Largest ferry

#210

of 882 of this type with a recorded tonnage

Largest in its fleet

of 11 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage

In brief

About MV Kennicott

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MV Kennicott is a mainline ferry vessel for the Alaska Marine Highway System.
Constructed in 1998 by the Halter Marine Group in Moss Point, Mississippi, the Kennicott has been one of the most vital vessels to the Alaska ferry system since its inception. It is nine-deck, ocean certified vessel and is also able to serve as a command and logistics vessel in the event of disaster or oil spill. The ferry system, taking advantage of her ocean-going status, sends the vessel on a monthly trans-Gulf of Alaska ("cross-gulf") voyage beginning in Juneau and concluding in Kodiak. On this voyage, the Kennicott is able to provide service to the isolated Gulf of Alaska community of Yakutat and is the only vessel to do so. The cross-gulf voyages are very popular and quite often sold out. The Kennicott and the Tustumena are the Alaska Marine Highway's only accredited ocean-going vessels. The Kennicott also serves as a mainline relief ferry in the event other ferries are out of service.
The Kennicott's amenities include a hot-food cafeteria; cocktail lounge and bar; solarium; forward, aft, movie, and business lounges; gift shop; 51 four-berth cabins; and 58 two-berth cabins. The aft portion of the Kennicott appears bloated because there is an external car elevator built into the superstructure. The elevator is used in ports without roll-on ramps allowing service to ordinary docks.

Quoted from MV Kennicott on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Vessel particulars

Identification and dimensions

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

IMO number: 9145205
IMO check digit: Valid
MMSI: 368250000
Call sign: WCY2920
Flag state: United States
Port of registry: —
Vessel class: —
Status: in service

Construction

Type: Ferry
Builder: Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding
Yard number: 1510
Launched: —
Year built: 1998
Designed to carry: —
Owner: Alaska Marine Highway System
Operator on record: Alaska Marine Highway

Measurements

Gross tonnage: 12,635
Net tonnage: —
Displacement: —
Length overall: 116.0 m
Beam: 85.0 m
Draft: 17.0 m
Service speed: —
Passenger capacity: 450

In context

How MV Kennicott compares

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 12,635 gross tons, MV Kennicott is the 32,771st 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 2.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 210th by tonnage — larger than 76% 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.

United States is the country of registry for 2,278 vessels in this directory, of which MV Kennicott is the 303rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (977 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,706 GT. Browse every ship flagged United States.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 33 ferrys flying the United States flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.

MV Kennicott was built in 1998, making it 28 years old. It is one of 1,367 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,381 GT; within it this ship is the 551st largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 40 vessels to Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 2,218 GT, delivered between 1972 and 2018. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 116.0 m overall, MV Kennicott is 12.0 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 85.0 m and a draft of 17.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9145205 this registry holds 56 other vessels, whose median build year is 1997 and which range from 1996 to 2004. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1998.

Its IMO number, 9145205, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 4×5 + 5×4 + 2×3 + 0×2 = 115 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.

Nearest by tonnage among ferrys

Ship	Built	Gross tonnage
Arahura	1983	12,735
FERRY RITSURIN	2016	12,636
Ferry Bizan	2016	12,636
MV Kennicott (this ship)	1998	12,635
Aratere	1998	12,596
MS Georg Ots	1980	12,549
MV Logos Hope	1973	12,519

Same yard, same years

Built alongside at Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding

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.