MV Sirius

Netherlands is the country of registry for 1,546 vessels in this directory. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (839 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,810 GT. Browse every ship flagged Netherlands.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 839 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Netherlands flag.

MV Sirius was built in 1950, making it 76 years old. It is one of 153 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 555 GT. Across the whole of the 1950s the registry holds 2,005 vessels, median 960 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 46.0 m overall, MV Sirius is 69.0 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8837461 this registry holds 23 other vessels, whose median build year is 1989 and which range from 1950 to 1991. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1950.

Its IMO number, 8837461, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 8×6 + 3×5 + 7×4 + 4×3 + 6×2 = 171 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.