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Loch Portain

IMO 9274824MMSI 235008928Call sign VQKE8United KingdomBuilt 2003

Operated by Caledonian MacBrayne

Photo: Gordon Hatton · CC BY-SA 2.0 · file

Largest in this registry

#66,607

of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage

Largest unclassified

#37,555

of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage

Largest in its fleet

#25

of 41 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage

In brief

About Loch Portain

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MV Loch Portain (Scottish Gaelic: Lochportain) is a Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited water-jet propulsion ro-ro car ferry, operated by Caledonian MacBrayne, built for the Sound of Harris crossing in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.

Quoted from MV Loch Portain 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 Loch Portain 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 950 gross tons, Loch Portain is the 66,607th 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 6.3 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 37,555th by tonnage — larger than 24% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which Loch Portain is the 1,340th largest by tonnage. 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 1,835 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 1,002 are larger by tonnage.

Loch Portain was built in 2003, making it 23 years old. It is one of 1,383 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,954 GT; within it this ship is the 1,128th 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 16 vessels to McTay Marine, with a median tonnage of 364 GT, delivered between 1980 and 2003. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 48.0 m overall, Loch Portain is 67.0 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 14.4 m and a draft of 1.5 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9274824 this registry holds 72 other vessels, whose median build year is 2004 and which range from 2002 to 2014. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2003.

Its IMO number, 9274824, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 7×5 + 4×4 + 8×3 + 2×2 = 154 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.