MV Sound of Jura

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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 Jura was built in 1969, making it 57 years old. It is one of 814 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 992 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 50 vessels to Hatlø Verksted, with a median tonnage of 2,121 GT, delivered between 1961 and 2011. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 49.4 m overall, MV Sound of Jura is 65.6 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 11.3 m and a draft of 2.5 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 6920068 this registry holds 7 other vessels, whose median build year is 1969 and which range from 1969 to 1970. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1969.

Its IMO number, 6920068, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 6×7 + 9×6 + 2×5 + 0×4 + 0×3 + 6×2 = 118 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.