MV Hebrides

MV Hebrides was built in 1964, making it 62 years old. It is one of 309 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 909 GT. 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 45 vessels to Hall, Russell & Company, with a median tonnage of 1,018 GT, delivered between 1883 and 1990. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 71.6 m overall, MV Hebrides is 32.4 m shorter than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 43.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 6401165 this registry holds 9 other vessels, whose median build year is 1963 and which range from 1963 to 1964. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1964.

Its IMO number, 6401165, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 6×7 + 4×6 + 0×5 + 1×4 + 1×3 + 6×2 = 85 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.