Caledonia

United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 40 ferrys flying the United Kingdom flag.

Caledonia was built in 1934, making it 92 years old. It is one of 30 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,014 GT. Across the whole of the 1930s the registry holds 552 vessels, median 1,138 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 31 vessels to William Denny and Brothers, with a median tonnage of 2,283 GT, delivered between 1900 and 1962. See the rest of that yard’s output.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5057785 this registry holds 10 other vessels, whose median build year is 1952 and which range from 1930 to 1962. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1934.

Its IMO number, 5057785, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 0×6 + 5×5 + 7×4 + 7×3 + 8×2 = 125 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.