MS Viking Cinderella

At 46,398 gross tons, MS Viking Cinderella is the 10,737th 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 7.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 877 ro-ros held here, it ranks 56th by tonnage — larger than 93% of that group. Their median tonnage is 7,395 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 34,011 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Italy (62 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, with 16 hulls on record.

Finland is the country of registry for 249 vessels in this directory, of which MS Viking Cinderella is the 11th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (110 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,673 GT. Browse every ship flagged Finland.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 30 ro-ros flying the Finland flag, of which 6 are larger by tonnage.

MS Viking Cinderella was built in 1989, making it 37 years old. It is one of 1,131 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,938 GT; within it this ship is the 63rd largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 12 vessels to Wärtsilä Marine, with a median tonnage of 24,848 GT, delivered between 1987 and 1990. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 191.0 m overall, MS Viking Cinderella is 66.0 m longer than the 125.0 m median for ro-ros on record, with a beam of 35.8 m and a draft of 6.6 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8719188 this registry holds 34 other vessels, whose median build year is 1988 and which range from 1987 to 1993. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1989.

Its IMO number, 8719188, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 7×6 + 1×5 + 9×4 + 1×3 + 8×2 = 158 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.