At 2,901 gross tons, MS «Wilson Heron» is the 52,666th 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 2.1 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,085 multi-purposes held here, it ranks 523rd by tonnage — larger than 45% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,998 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 11,901 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Netherlands (170 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is SLKB Komarno – Slovak Shipyard Komárno, with 78 hulls on record.
Malta is the country of registry for 2,640 vessels in this directory, of which MS «Wilson Heron» is the 2,282nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,614 ships), and the median vessel measures 23,204 GT. Browse every ship flagged Malta.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 18 multi-purposes flying the Malta flag, of which 13 are larger by tonnage.
MS «Wilson Heron» was built in 1994, making it 32 years old. It is one of 1,047 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 5,680 GT; within it this ship is the 621st 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 58 vessels to Scheepswerf Pattje, with a median tonnage of 2,512 GT, delivered between 1909 and 2017. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 91.1 m overall, MS «Wilson Heron» is 1.1 m longer than the 90.0 m median for multi-purposes on record, with a beam of 14.0 m and a draft of 5.8 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9116022 this registry holds 59 other vessels, whose median build year is 1995 and which range from 1994 to 1997. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1994.
Its IMO number, 9116022, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 1×5 + 6×4 + 0×3 + 2×2 = 102 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.
