Queen of Sidney

Queen of Sidney was built in 1960, making it 66 years old. It is one of 315 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 530 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 14 vessels to Victoria Machinery Depot, with a median tonnage of 4,902 GT, delivered between 1956 and 1966. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 102.4 m overall, Queen of Sidney is 1.6 m shorter than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 22.6 m and a draft of 3.8 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5288011 this registry holds 16 other vessels, whose median build year is 1960 and which range from 1933 to 1963. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1960.

Its IMO number, 5288011, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 2×6 + 8×5 + 8×4 + 0×3 + 1×2 = 121 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.