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Multi-purpose

BBC Balboa

IMO 9501667Call sign V2FN5Antigua and BarbudaBuilt 2012

Operated by BBC Chartering

Photo: Siegbert Brey · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file

Largest in this registry

#41,348

of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage

Largest multi-purpose

#241

of 949 of this type with a recorded tonnage

Largest in its fleet

of 8 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage

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: 9501667
IMO check digit: Valid
MMSI
Call sign: V2FN5
Flag state: Antigua and Barbuda

In context

How BBC Balboa 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.

At 6,310 gross tons, BBC Balboa is the 41,348th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,085 multi-purposes held here, it ranks 241st by tonnage — larger than 74% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,998 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 11,901 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Netherlands (170 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is SLKB Komarno – Slovak Shipyard Komárno, with 78 hulls on record.

Antigua and Barbuda is the country of registry for 734 vessels in this directory, of which BBC Balboa is the 358th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (372 ships), and the median vessel measures 6,351 GT. Browse every ship flagged Antigua and Barbuda.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 119 multi-purposes flying the Antigua and Barbuda flag, of which 39 are larger by tonnage.

BBC Balboa was built in 2012, making it 14 years old. It is one of 2,747 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 1,837th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 129.0 m overall, BBC Balboa is 39.0 m longer than the 90.0 m median for multi-purposes on record and a draft of 7.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9501667 this registry holds 55 other vessels, whose median build year is 2009 and which range from 2008 to 2014. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2012.

Its IMO number, 9501667, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 5×6 + 0×5 + 1×4 + 6×3 + 6×2 = 127 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.