At 206 gross tons, MV Loch Ranza is the 80,658th 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 29 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 47,071st by tonnage — larger than 5% 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.
United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which MV Loch Ranza is the 1,897th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,835 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 1,466 are larger by tonnage.
MV Loch Ranza was built in 1987, making it 39 years old. It is one of 819 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,937 GT; within it this ship is the 714th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 42 vessels to Richard Dunston, with a median tonnage of 308 GT, delivered between 1957 and 1993. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 35.7 m overall, MV Loch Ranza is 79.3 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 10.0 m and a draft of 1.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8519887 this registry holds 14 other vessels, whose median build year is 1987 and which range from 1986 to 1989. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1987.
Its IMO number, 8519887, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 5×6 + 1×5 + 9×4 + 8×3 + 8×2 = 167 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.
