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MV Loch Seaforth

IMO 9665437MMSI 235101635Call sign 2GYU4United KingdomBuilt 2015

Operated by Caledonian MacBrayne

Photo: Mn28 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file

Largest in this registry

#37,850

of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage

Largest unclassified

#21,609

of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage

Largest in its fleet

of 41 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage

In brief

About MV Loch Seaforth

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MV Loch Seaforth is a ferry operated by Caledonian MacBrayne between Stornoway and Ullapool. She was launched on 21 March 2014 and entered service in mid-February 2015, replacing both the former vessel, 1995-built MV Isle of Lewis and a chartered freight vessel (latterly MS Clipper Ranger).

Quoted from MV Loch Seaforth (2014) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

In context

How MV Loch Seaforth 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 8,680 gross tons, MV Loch Seaforth is the 37,850th 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 1.4 times 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 21,609th by tonnage — larger than 57% 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 Seaforth is the 406th 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 209 are larger by tonnage.

MV Loch Seaforth 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 1,188th 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.

The registry attributes 118 vessels to Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, with a median tonnage of 24,046 GT, delivered between 1900 and 2022. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 116.0 m overall, MV Loch Seaforth is 1.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 19.2 m and a draft of 4.8 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9665437 this registry holds 66 other vessels, whose median build year is 2014 and which range from 1989 to 2016. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2015.

Its IMO number, 9665437, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 6×6 + 6×5 + 5×4 + 4×3 + 3×2 = 167 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.