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Multi-purpose

BBC Skysails

IMO 9399129MMSI 305093000Call sign V2CS4GermanyBuilt 2008

Operator on record: Onego Deusto BV

Photo: Ursula Horn · CC BY 3.0 · file

Largest in this registry

#41,345

of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage

Largest multi-purpose

#240

of 949 of this type with a recorded tonnage

Fleet rank

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No operator attributed to this ship

In brief

About BBC Skysails

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MS Onego Deusto (christened Beluga SkySails) is a commercial container cargo ship. It is the world's first ship partially powered by a computer-controlled kite rig, called the SkySails system. It consists of a kite similar to a huge paraglider of up to 160 square metres (1,700 sq ft) area.

Quoted from MS Onego Deusto 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

In context

How BBC Skysails 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 6,312 gross tons, BBC Skysails is the 41,345th 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 240th by tonnage — larger than 75% 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.

Germany is the country of registry for 885 vessels in this directory, of which BBC Skysails is the 166th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (446 ships), and the median vessel measures 916 GT. Browse every ship flagged Germany.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 20 multi-purposes flying the Germany flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.

BBC Skysails was built in 2008, making it 18 years old. It is one of 2,764 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,971 GT; within it this ship is the 1,564th 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 78 vessels to Volharding Shipyards, with a median tonnage of 6,130 GT, delivered between 1939 and 2011. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 132.2 m overall, BBC Skysails is 42.2 m longer than the 90.0 m median for multi-purposes on record, with a beam of 15.9 m and a draft of 7.7 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9399129 this registry holds 74 other vessels, whose median build year is 2009 and which range from 2006 to 2011. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2008.

Its IMO number, 9399129, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 9×5 + 9×4 + 1×3 + 2×2 = 169 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.