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Fishing vessel

HMCS Baffin

IMO 5251628United KingdomBuilt 1942

Operated by Royal Canadian Navy

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No gross tonnage is recorded for this vessel, so it cannot be ranked by size. Rank is only shown where the underlying measurement exists.

In brief

About HMCS Baffin

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HMS Baffin was an Isles-class trawler of the Royal Navy. Constructed in Canada for the Royal Navy, the trawler was one of eight loaned to the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. The vessel was mostly engaged in minesweeping duties out of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Following the war, Baffin was returned to the Royal Navy. The vessel was then sold into mercantile service. The vessel was broken up in 1983.

Quoted from HMS Baffin 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: 5251628
IMO check digit: Valid
MMSI

In context

How HMCS Baffin 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.

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 30 fishing vessels flying the United Kingdom flag.

HMCS Baffin was built in 1942, making it 84 years old. It is one of 65 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,025 GT. Across the whole of the 1940s the registry holds 1,039 vessels, median 4,053 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 42 vessels to Collingwood Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 19,853 GT, delivered between 1907 and 2015. See the rest of that yard’s output.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5251628 this registry holds 6 other vessels, whose median build year is 1938 and which range from 1925 to 1942. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1942.

Its IMO number, 5251628, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 2×6 + 5×5 + 1×4 + 6×3 + 2×2 = 98 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.