MV Musthika Kencana II

At 8,181 gross tons, MV Musthika Kencana II is the 38,575th 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 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 320th by tonnage — larger than 64% 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.

MV Musthika Kencana II was built in 1972, making it 54 years old. It is one of 1,928 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,016 GT; within it this ship is the 545th largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 36 vessels to Ateliers et Chantiers du Havre, with a median tonnage of 8,522 GT, delivered between 1966 and 2002. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 116.6 m overall, MV Musthika Kencana II is 12.6 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 19.2 m and a draft of 4.3 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7108203 this registry holds 36 other vessels, whose median build year is 1971 and which range from 1956 to 1972. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1972.

Its IMO number, 7108203, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 1×6 + 0×5 + 8×4 + 2×3 + 0×2 = 93 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.