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Ferry

MV Columbia

IMO 7320095MMSI 367144000Call sign WYR2092United StatesBuilt 1974

Operated by Alaska Marine Highway

Largest in this registry

#32,463

of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage

Largest ferry

#203

of 882 of this type with a recorded tonnage

Largest in its fleet

of 11 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage

In brief

About MV Columbia

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MV Columbia is a mainline ferry for the Alaska Marine Highway System.
Constructed in 1974 by Lockheed Shipbuilding in Seattle, Washington, the Columbia has been the flagship of the Alaska ferry system for over 40 years. As a mainline ferry, which means she serves the largest of the inside passage communities (such as Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau, Haines, Skagway, and Sitka), her route spans the entirety of the inside passage, often beginning runs in Bellingham, Washington and running to the northernmost Alaskan Panhandle community of Skagway stopping in communities along the way, during the summer season (winter services are sometimes operated by MV Malaspina). Columbia has an upper deck between the main vehicle deck and the cabin deck with additional vehicle stowage accessed by two vehicle elevators capable of hoisting 19 foot vehicles with their passengers, and additional passenger cabins.
On July 2, 2006, an auxiliary engine room fire broke out on the Columbia temporarily impairing steering and propulsion on her northbound voyage from Bellingham in Seymour Narrows in Canadian waters. She motored to Duncan Bay, British Columbia for damage assessment before continuing on to Ketchikan's Alaska Ship & Dry Dock for more extensive repairs.

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: 7320095
IMO check digit: Valid
MMSI: 367144000
Call sign: WYR2092
Flag state: United States
Port of registry: —
Vessel class: —
Status: in service

Construction

Type: Ferry
Builder: Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company
Yard number: 142
Launched: —
Year built: 1974
Designed to carry: —
Owner: Alaska Marine Highway System
Operator on record: Alaska Marine Highway

Measurements

Gross tonnage: 13,009
Net tonnage: —
Displacement: —
Length overall: 127.4 m
Beam: 25.9 m
Draft: 5.4 m
Service speed: —
Passenger capacity: 499

In context

How MV Columbia 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 13,009 gross tons, MV Columbia is the 32,463rd 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 2.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 203rd by tonnage — larger than 77% of that group. Their median tonnage is 3,908 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 25,454 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Japan (241 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with 34 hulls on record.

United States is the country of registry for 2,278 vessels in this directory, of which MV Columbia is the 294th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (977 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,706 GT. Browse every ship flagged United States.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 33 ferrys flying the United States flag, of which none is larger than MV Columbia.

MV Columbia was built in 1974, making it 52 years old. It is one of 2,111 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,681 GT; within it this ship is the 428th largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 12 vessels to Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company, with a median tonnage of 9,214 GT, delivered between 1954 and 1977. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 127.4 m overall, MV Columbia is 23.4 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 25.9 m and a draft of 5.4 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7320095 this registry holds 60 other vessels, whose median build year is 1973 and which range from 1973 to 1974. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1974.

Its IMO number, 7320095, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 3×6 + 2×5 + 0×4 + 0×3 + 9×2 = 95 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.

Nearest by tonnage among ferrys

Ship	Built	Gross tonnage
Moby Fantasy	1976	13,284
Dokter Wagemaker	2005	13,256
MS Stena Scotia	1996	13,017
MV Columbia (this ship)	1974	13,009
Seokyung Paradise	1987	12,961
Andros King	2006	12,895
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MV Columbia

About MV Columbia

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How MV Columbia compares

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