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Ferry

MV Queen of Burnaby

IMO 6510148MMSI 316001246Call sign VCVVCanadaBuilt 1965

Operated by BC Ferries

Photo: Webgeer at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 2.5 · file

Largest in this registry

#44,848

of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage

Largest ferry

#413

of 882 of this type with a recorded tonnage

Largest in its fleet

#17

of 27 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage

In brief

About MV Queen of Burnaby

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The V-class ferries, also known as the Victoria class, originally included seven ferries operated by BC Ferries built between 1962 and 1965. The V class were a continuation of the previous Sidney-class design with some cosmetic changes and different engines. These vessels were the backbone of service on the Tsawwassen – Swartz Bay route prior to the arrival of MV Spirit of British Columbia in 1993. Four of these vessels underwent vehicle capacity increases three times. The lead ship of the class, Queen of Victoria suffered significant damage in a collision in 1970.
Two of the ferries are also known as the Burnaby class, built between 1964 and 1965. There are two ships in this class are MV Queen of Burnaby and MV Queen of Nanaimo. Both are propelled by controllable-pitch propellers. Both were built with two Mirrlees National KVSSM, V-16, 4 stroke-cycle, diesel engines, each producing 3,000 brake horsepower (2,200 kW) at 320 revolutions per minute.
The vessels began to be retired in 2000. Four vessels were to be retired and sold in 2008. The transfer of Queen of Esquimalt was halted and she was broken up in Ensenada, Mexico. Both Queen of Nanaimo and Queen of Burnaby were retired in 2017. Queen of New Westminster is still in service with BC Ferries. Queen of Nanaimo was sold to a ferry company in Fiji and was eventually sold for scrap in June 2022.

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: 6510148
IMO check digit: Valid
MMSI: 316001246
Call sign: VCVV
Flag state: Canada
Port of registry: Victoria
Vessel class: —
Status: in service

Construction

Type: Ferry
Builder: Victoria Machinery Depot
Yard number: 125
Launched: —
Year built: 1965
Designed to carry: —
Owner: BC Ferries
Operator on record: BC Ferries

Measurements

Gross tonnage: 4,902
Net tonnage: —
Displacement: —
Length overall: 105.3 m
Beam: 23.9 m
Draft: 3.8 m
Service speed: 18.0 kn

In context

How MV Queen of Burnaby 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 4,902 gross tons, MV Queen of Burnaby is the 44,848th 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 1.2 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 413th by tonnage — larger than 53% 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.

Canada is the country of registry for 633 vessels in this directory, of which MV Queen of Burnaby is the 166th 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 26 ferrys flying the Canada flag, of which 9 are larger by tonnage.

MV Queen of Burnaby was built in 1965, making it 61 years old. It is one of 378 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 695 GT; within it this ship is the 24th largest. 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 14 vessels to Victoria Machinery Depot, with a median tonnage of 4,902 GT, delivered between 1956 and 1966. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 105.3 m overall, MV Queen of Burnaby is 1.3 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 23.9 m and a draft of 3.8 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 6510148 this registry holds 12 other vessels, whose median build year is 1965 and which range from 1916 to 1965. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1965.

Its IMO number, 6510148, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 6×7 + 5×6 + 1×5 + 0×4 + 1×3 + 4×2 = 88 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.

Nearest by tonnage among ferrys

Ship	Built	Gross tonnage
Travemünde	1964	4,950
びいな	1987	4,949
Contessa di Levante	1999	4,945
MV Queen of Burnaby (this ship)	1965	4,902
Pegasus X	1977	4,863
Medmar Giulia	1971	4,833
MV Salem Express

MV Queen of Burnaby

About MV Queen of Burnaby

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