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TSS Ben-my-Chree

IMO 6602707Built 1965

Operated by Isle of Man Steam Packet Company

Photo: Harvey Milligan · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file

No gross tonnage is recorded for this vessel, so it cannot be ranked by size. Rank is only shown where the underlying measurement exists.

In brief

About TSS Ben-my-Chree

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TSS (RMS) Ben-my-Chree (V) was the second of four side-loading car ferries ordered by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company. Built in 1965, she was the last of their vessels designed with two classes of passenger accommodation and the fifth company vessel to bear the name. She operated until 1984 and was broken up in 1989. Fitted with steam turbines, she was the last steam powered vessel built for the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company.

Quoted from SS Ben-my-Chree (1965) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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: 6602707
IMO check digit: Valid
MMSI

In context

How TSS Ben-my-Chree 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.

TSS Ben-my-Chree was built in 1965, making it 61 years old. It is one of 378 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 695 GT. 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 51 vessels to Cammell Laird, with a median tonnage of 4,791 GT, delivered between 1913 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 104.8 m overall, TSS Ben-my-Chree is 10.2 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 50.0 m and a draft of 12.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 6602707 this registry holds 11 other vessels, whose median build year is 1966 and which range from 1965 to 1966. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1965.

Its IMO number, 6602707, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 6×7 + 6×6 + 0×5 + 2×4 + 7×3 + 0×2 = 107 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.