MS Sapphire

At 12,263 gross tons, MS Sapphire is the 33,119th 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 2.0 times 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 18,681st by tonnage — larger than 62% 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.

India is the country of registry for 968 vessels in this directory, of which MS Sapphire is the 322nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (514 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,306 GT. Browse every ship flagged India.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 514 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the India flag, of which 187 are larger by tonnage.

MS Sapphire was built in 1967, making it 59 years old. It is one of 496 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 757 GT; within it this ship is the 18th largest. Across the whole of the 1960s the registry holds 4,074 vessels, median 844 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 1 vessels to Cantieri Navale Felszegi, Trieste, with a median tonnage of 12,263 GT, delivered between 1967 and 1967. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 149.0 m overall, MS Sapphire is 34.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 21.5 m and a draft of 6.8 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 6513994 this registry holds 9 other vessels, whose median build year is 1964 and which range from 1944 to 1967. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1967.

Its IMO number, 6513994, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 6×7 + 5×6 + 1×5 + 3×4 + 9×3 + 9×2 = 134 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.