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Bulk carrier

Algoma Discovery

IMO 8505848Call sign 9HPF3CanadaBuilt 1987

Operated by Algoma Central

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

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: 8505848
IMO check digit: Valid
MMSI
Call sign: 9HPF3
Flag state: Canada
Port of registry: St. Catharines
Vessel class: —
Status: in service

Construction

Type: Bulk carrier
Builder: 3. Maj
Yard number: 642

In context

How Algoma Discovery 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.

Canada is the country of registry for 633 vessels in this directory. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (404 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,800 GT. Browse every ship flagged Canada.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 34 bulk carriers flying the Canada flag.

Algoma Discovery was built in 1987, making it 39 years old. It is one of 819 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,937 GT. 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 120 vessels to 3. Maj, with a median tonnage of 18,602 GT, delivered between 1900 and 2023. See the rest of that yard’s output.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8505848 this registry holds 47 other vessels, whose median build year is 1986 and which range from 1985 to 1999. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1987.

Its IMO number, 8505848, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 5×6 + 0×5 + 5×4 + 8×3 + 4×2 = 138 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.

Nearest by IMO number

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Same yard, same years

Built alongside at 3. Maj

No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.