MV Baynes Sound Connector

At 753 gross tons, MV Baynes Sound Connector is the 68,646th 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 8.0 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 38,640th by tonnage — larger than 22% 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 MV Baynes Sound Connector is the 305th 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 163 are larger by tonnage.

MV Baynes Sound Connector was built in 2015, making it 11 years old. It is one of 1,804 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,303 GT; within it this ship is the 1,618th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 78.5 m overall, MV Baynes Sound Connector is 36.5 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 9739252 this registry holds 64 other vessels, whose median build year is 2015 and which range from 2014 to 2020. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2015.

Its IMO number, 9739252, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 7×6 + 3×5 + 9×4 + 2×3 + 5×2 = 172 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.