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Ferry

MV Tustumena

IMO 6421086MMSI 303267000Call sign WNGWUnited StatesBuilt 1964

Operated by Alaska Marine Highway

Photo: Gordon Leggett · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file

Largest in this registry

#45,871

of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage

Largest ferry

#423

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 Tustumena

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M/V Tustumena is a mainline ferry vessel for the Alaska Marine Highway System.
Tustumena was constructed in 1963 by Christy Corporation in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin and refurbished in 1969 in San Francisco. As the only mainline ferry in South-central Alaska and the Aleutian Chain, it principally runs between Kodiak, Seldovia, Port Lions, and Homer with Homer providing a road link to the other communities on the Kenai Peninsula. The only interruptions from this schedule occur when making a voyage out the Aleutian Chain (the Aleutian Chain run consists of the communities of Akutan, Chignik, Cold Bay, False Pass, King Cove, Sand Point, and Unalaska/Dutch Harbor) which the vessel undergoes eight times a year all of which occur during the summer as winter weather becomes too dangerous.
Because of the exposed and unstable parts of Alaska it plies, the Tustumena is an accredited ocean-going vessel, a quality it shares exclusively with the Kennicott. As such, the Tustumena is replaced by the M/V Kennicott when it undergoes annual maintenance.
The Tustumena is the smallest AMHS vessel to have cabins. The Tustumena's amenities include a full service dining room; cocktail lounge and bar (which is now closed; there is wine and beer service at meals); solarium; forward, aft, movie, and business lounges; eight four-berth cabins and 18 two-berth cabins.

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: 6421086
IMO check digit: Valid
MMSI: 303267000
Call sign: WNGW
Flag state: United States
Port of registry: —
Vessel class: —
Status: in service

Construction

Type: Ferry
Builder: Bay Shipbuilding Company
Yard number: 418
Launched: —
Year built: 1964
Designed to carry: —
Owner: Alaska Marine Highway System
Operator on record: Alaska Marine Highway

Measurements

Gross tonnage: 4,529
Net tonnage: —
Displacement: —
Length overall: 90.0 m
Beam: 18.0 m
Draft: 4.4 m
Service speed: —
Passenger capacity: 211

In context

How MV Tustumena 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 4,529 gross tons, MV Tustumena is the 45,871st 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 1.3 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 423rd by tonnage — larger than 52% 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 Tustumena is the 442nd 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 9 are larger by tonnage.

MV Tustumena was built in 1964, making it 62 years old. It is one of 309 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 909 GT; within it this ship is the 23rd 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 32 vessels to Bay Shipbuilding Company, with a median tonnage of 11,619 GT, delivered between 1944 and 2022. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 90.0 m overall, MV Tustumena is 14.0 m shorter than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 18.0 m and a draft of 4.4 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 6421086 this registry holds 8 other vessels, whose median build year is 1964 and which range from 1962 to 1965. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1964.

Its IMO number, 6421086, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 6×7 + 4×6 + 2×5 + 1×4 + 0×3 + 8×2 = 96 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.

Nearest by tonnage among ferrys

Ship	Built	Gross tonnage
MV Chetzemoka	2010	4,623
Salish	2011	4,623
Paolo Veronese	1986	4,593
MV Tustumena (this ship)	1964	4,529
Pietro Novelli	1979	4,453
Carrier Princess	1973	4,353
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MV Tustumena

About MV Tustumena

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