MS Dunkerque Seaways

At 35,923 gross tons, MS Dunkerque Seaways is the 15,762nd 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 6.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 26th by tonnage — larger than 97% 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 MS Dunkerque Seaways is the 216th 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 1 is larger by tonnage.

MS Dunkerque Seaways was built in 2005, making it 21 years old. It is one of 1,690 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,046 GT; within it this ship is the 448th 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 826 vessels to Samsung Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 75,201 GT, delivered between 1980 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 186.0 m overall, MS Dunkerque Seaways is 82.0 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 28.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9293076 this registry holds 64 other vessels, whose median build year is 2005 and which range from 2003 to 2012. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2005.

Its IMO number, 9293076, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 9×5 + 3×4 + 0×3 + 7×2 = 146 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.