MV Sound of Islay

United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory. 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.

MV Sound of Islay was built in 1968, making it 58 years old. It is one of 536 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 769 GT. 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 61 vessels to Ferguson Marine, with a median tonnage of 2,181 GT, delivered between 1939 and 2016. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 43.4 m overall, MV Sound of Islay is 71.6 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 6810926 this registry holds 12 other vessels, whose median build year is 1968 and which range from 1944 to 1969. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1968.

Its IMO number, 6810926, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 6×7 + 8×6 + 1×5 + 0×4 + 9×3 + 2×2 = 126 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.