At 2,309 gross tons, MV Prince of Wales is the 56,083rd 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 2.6 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 558th by tonnage — larger than 37% 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 Prince of Wales is the 633rd 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 17 are larger by tonnage.
MV Prince of Wales was built in 2001, making it 25 years old. It is one of 1,268 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 14,062 GT; within it this ship is the 879th 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 2 vessels to Dakota Creek Industries, Anacortes, Washington, with a median tonnage of 2,322 GT, delivered between 2001 and 2006. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 59.0 m overall, MV Prince of Wales is 45.0 m shorter than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 52.8 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8968351 this registry holds 17 other vessels, whose median build year is 2001 and which range from 1958 to 2002. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2001.
Its IMO number, 8968351, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 9×6 + 6×5 + 8×4 + 3×3 + 5×2 = 191 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.
