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Largest in this registry
#46,613
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#26,628
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#18
of 27 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
MV Malaspina Sky is an Intermediate-class ferry in the BC Ferries fleet built in 2008.
Originally named Island Sky, the ship has operated on the Earl's Cove–Saltery Bay route since its first day of service for BC Ferries on February 19, 2009. However, it was used on the Powell River (Westview) - Little River (Comox) run as the replacement vessel for Queen of Burnaby while Queen of Burnaby was being refitted, and during the upgrades to both those terminals (October 2013 to March 2014). The vessel was temporarily assigned to the Horseshoe Bay to Langdale route (March/April 2017), whilst the dock at Langdale was being upgraded.
The ship was renamed Malaspina Sky in a ceremony on October 24, 2019. The ship was renamed as part of a BC Ferries' initiative to standardize its naming conventions, to release the name, and to prevent confusion with the upcoming Island-class ferries being delivered in 2020.
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 4,313 gross tons, Malaspina Sky is the 46,613th 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 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 26,628th by tonnage — larger than 46% 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.
Canada is the country of registry for 633 vessels in this directory, of which Malaspina Sky is the 179th 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 404 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Canada flag, of which 89 are larger by tonnage.
Malaspina Sky was built in 2008, making it 18 years old. It is one of 2,764 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,971 GT; within it this ship is the 1,781st 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 5 vessels to Seaspan Marine Corporation, with a median tonnage of 2,701 GT, delivered between 1983 and 2020. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 102.5 m overall, Malaspina Sky is 12.5 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9370458 this registry holds 67 other vessels, whose median build year is 2008 and which range from 2005 to 2011. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2008.
Its IMO number, 9370458, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 7×5 + 0×4 + 4×3 + 5×2 = 138 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among vessels this registry holds no type classification for
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Darsh F | 1982 | 4,317 |
| Golden Bridge | 1975 | 4,317 |
| Sinar Arrow | 1981 | 4,317 |
| Malaspina Sky (this ship) | 2008 | 4,313 |
| Pulkovskiy Meridian | 1974 | 4,312 |
| Marina | 1985 | 4,312 |
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from MV Malaspina Sky on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Gordon Leggett, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
| 2011 |
| 4,312 |