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Largest in this registry
#56,464
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest general cargo
#3,413
of 5,539 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
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No operator attributed to this ship
In brief
The Blue Sky M incident is a maritime incident which took place on 30–31 December 2014 in the Ionian Sea, when a cargo vessel carrying many migrants from Syria and neighbouring states was abandoned by its crew. The Moldovan-flagged MV Blue Sky M had left Korfez, Turkey heading for Rijeka in Croatia.
Vessel particulars
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
Construction
Measurements
In context
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 2,240 gross tons, Blue Sky M is the 56,464th 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 2.7 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 3,413th by tonnage — larger than 38% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,963 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 10,970 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (565 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Cestné a Stavebné Mechanizmy Tisovec, with 137 hulls on record.
Moldova is the country of registry for 214 vessels in this directory, of which Blue Sky M is the 125th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (142 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,602 GT. Browse every ship flagged Moldova.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 47 general cargos flying the Moldova flag, of which 25 are larger by tonnage.
The registry attributes 533 vessels to Pella Sietas, with a median tonnage of 3,999 GT, delivered between 1914 and 2020. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 81.4 m overall, Blue Sky M is 19.6 m shorter than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record, with a beam of 13.4 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7510690 this registry holds 45 other vessels, whose median build year is 1976 and which range from 1973 to 1979. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series; no build year is recorded for this vessel itself.
Its IMO number, 7510690, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 5×6 + 1×5 + 0×4 + 6×3 + 9×2 = 120 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among general cargos
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| «Nossan» | 1990 | 2,248 |
| Xiang Shun | 1996 | 2,245 |
| Lucky Sea | 1986 | 2,241 |
| Blue Sky M (this ship) | — | 2,240 |
| Liebe | 2012 | 2,238 |
| Elpis | 2011 | 2,238 |
| Zhen Zhu Quan |
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Blue Sky M incident on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Spiridon Ion Cepleanu, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
| 1992 |
| 2,238 |