MV Quinsam

At 1,458 gross tons, MV Quinsam is the 62,023rd 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 4.1 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 35,015th by tonnage — larger than 30% 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.

Canada is the country of registry for 633 vessels in this directory, of which MV Quinsam is the 255th 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 404 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Canada flag, of which 136 are larger by tonnage.

MV Quinsam was built in 1982, making it 44 years old. It is one of 1,706 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,592 GT; within it this ship is the 1,079th 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 1 vessels to Vancouver Shipyards Co Ltd., North Vancouver, with a median tonnage of 1,458 GT, delivered between 1982 and 1982. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 86.9 m overall, MV Quinsam is 28.1 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 21.2 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8111386 this registry holds 44 other vessels, whose median build year is 1982 and which range from 1980 to 1985. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1982.

Its IMO number, 8111386, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 1×6 + 1×5 + 1×4 + 3×3 + 8×2 = 96 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.