At 4,233 gross tons, CCGS Terry Fox is the 46,890th 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 1.4 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 612 research / surveys held here, it ranks 136th by tonnage — larger than 72% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,180 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 9,452 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (90 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Wärtsilä, with 36 hulls on record.
Canada is the country of registry for 633 vessels in this directory, of which CCGS Terry Fox is the 180th largest by tonnage. 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 38 research / surveys flying the Canada flag, of which 6 are larger by tonnage.
CCGS Terry Fox was built in 1992, making it 34 years old. It is one of 1,130 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,228 GT; within it this ship is the 489th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 18 vessels to Burrard Dry Dock, with a median tonnage of 3,818 GT, delivered between 1938 and 1992. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 88.0 m overall, CCGS Terry Fox is 17.0 m longer than the 71.0 m median for research / surveys on record, with a beam of 17.8 m and a draft of 8.3 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8127799 this registry holds 54 other vessels, whose median build year is 1982 and which range from 1981 to 1992. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1992.
Its IMO number, 8127799, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 1×6 + 2×5 + 7×4 + 7×3 + 9×2 = 139 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
