At 18,747 gross tons, MV Spirit of British Columbia is the 27,463rd 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 3.1 times 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 15,374th by tonnage — larger than 69% 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 Spirit of British Columbia is the 56th 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 29 are larger by tonnage.
MV Spirit of British Columbia was built in 1993, making it 33 years old. It is one of 1,073 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,586 GT; within it this ship is the 258th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 24 vessels to Yarrow Shipbuilders Limited, with a median tonnage of 3,850 GT, delivered between 1923 and 2008. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 168.0 m overall, MV Spirit of British Columbia is 53.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 32.9 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9015668 this registry holds 61 other vessels, whose median build year is 1992 and which range from 1990 to 2006. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1993.
Its IMO number, 9015668, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 0×6 + 1×5 + 5×4 + 6×3 + 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.
