Starward

At 15,781 gross tons, Starward is the 30,350th 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 the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 355th by tonnage — larger than 30% of that group. Their median tonnage is 43,009 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 143,289 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is The Bahamas (133 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Fincantieri, with 112 hulls on record.

Palau is the country of registry for 364 vessels in this directory, of which Starward is the 136th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (144 ships), and the median vessel measures 8,686 GT. Browse every ship flagged Palau.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 3 cruise ships flying the Palau flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.

Starward was built in 1968, making it 58 years old. It is one of 536 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 769 GT; within it this ship is the 18th 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 57 vessels to AG Weser, with a median tonnage of 10,552 GT, delivered between 1906 and 1981. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 160.1 m overall, Starward is 38.0 m shorter than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 22.8 m and a draft of 6.7 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 6821080 this registry holds 15 other vessels, whose median build year is 1968 and which range from 1911 to 1968. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1968.

Its IMO number, 6821080, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 6×7 + 8×6 + 2×5 + 1×4 + 0×3 + 8×2 = 120 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.