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MV Keppel

IMO 8434415MaltaBuilt 1961

Operated by Caledonian MacBrayne

Photo: Russ McLean at en.wikipedia · GFDL 1.2 · file

Largest in this registry

#63,060

of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage

Largest unclassified

#35,566

of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage

Largest in its fleet

#21

of 41 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage

In brief

About MV Keppel

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MV Keppel is a passenger-only ferry built in 1961 for the Tilbury to Gravesend crossing. She had twenty years of service on the Largs to Millport route. Since 1993, she has operated in Malta.

Quoted from MV Keppel 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: 8434415

In context

How MV Keppel 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 1,324 gross tons, MV Keppel is the 63,060th 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 4.5 times smaller than 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 35,566th by tonnage — larger than 28% 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.

Malta is the country of registry for 2,640 vessels in this directory, of which MV Keppel is the 2,401st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,614 ships), and the median vessel measures 23,204 GT. Browse every ship flagged Malta.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,614 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Malta flag, of which 1,447 are larger by tonnage.

MV Keppel was built in 1961, making it 65 years old. It is one of 231 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 844 GT; within it this ship is the 36th 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 3 vessels to J. Samuel White, with a median tonnage of 746 GT, delivered between 1927 and 1961. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 33.1 m overall, MV Keppel is 81.8 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 27.0 m and a draft of 5.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8434415 this registry holds 22 other vessels, whose median build year is 1979 and which range from 1903 to 1998. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1961.

Its IMO number, 8434415, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 4×6 + 3×5 + 4×4 + 4×3 + 1×2 = 125 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.