At 2,546 gross tons, MV Wight Sun is the 54,483rd 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 2.4 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 533rd by tonnage — larger than 40% 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 Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which MV Wight Sun is the 1,014th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 40 ferrys flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 10 are larger by tonnage.
MV Wight Sun was built in 2008, making it 18 years old. It is one of 2,764 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,971 GT; within it this ship is the 2,041st 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 3 vessels to Kraljevica, with a median tonnage of 2,546 GT, delivered between 2004 and 2008. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 62.0 m overall, MV Wight Sun is 42.0 m shorter than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 16.0 m and a draft of 2.3 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9490416 this registry holds 65 other vessels, whose median build year is 2010 and which range from 2008 to 2013. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2008.
Its IMO number, 9490416, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 4×6 + 9×5 + 0×4 + 4×3 + 1×2 = 146 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.
