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Unclassified
Operated by BC Ferries
Photo: Gordon Leggett · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file
Largest in this registry
#27,463
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#15,374
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#4
of 27 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
Spirit of Vancouver Island is an S-class ferry, part of the BC Ferries fleet. Along with MV Spirit of British Columbia, it is the largest in the BC Ferries fleet. The ship was completed in 1994 and serves the Swartz Bay – Tsawwassen route. In 2018, Spirit of Vancouver Island began a mid-life refit in Poland, where it was converted to a dual-fuel system to allow liquefied natural gas propulsion. The vessel returned to service in 2019.
Vessel particulars
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
Construction
Measurements
In context
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 18,747 gross tons, MV Spirit of Vancouver Island 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 Vancouver Island 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 Vancouver Island was built in 1994, making it 32 years old. It is one of 1,047 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 5,680 GT; within it this ship is the 311th 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 Vancouver Island 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 9030682 this registry holds 56 other vessels, whose median build year is 1992 and which range from 1990 to 1997. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1994.
Its IMO number, 9030682, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 0×6 + 3×5 + 0×4 + 6×3 + 8×2 = 112 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among vessels this registry holds no type classification for
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Chembulk Westport | 2005 | 18,760 |
| Winter Star | 1978 | 18,759 |
| Eastern Wb400 | 2016 | 18,756 |
| MV Spirit of Vancouver Island (this ship) | 1994 | 18,747 |
| MV Argo Merchant | 1953 | 18,743 |
| Chemroad Rose | 2005 | 18,734 |
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from MV Spirit of Vancouver Island on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Gordon Leggett, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
| Triton |
| 1976 |
| 18,727 |