At 2,108 gross tons, VM/S Hercules is the 57,179th 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 2.8 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 255 heavy lifts held here, it ranks 102nd by tonnage — larger than 55% of that group. Their median tonnage is 1,670 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 24,484 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Russia (41 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Pella Sietas, with 8 hulls on record.
Canada is the country of registry for 633 vessels in this directory, of which VM/S Hercules is the 233rd 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.
The registry attributes 17 vessels to Marine Industries Limited, with a median tonnage of 3,727 GT, delivered between 1937 and 1987. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 60.4 m overall, VM/S Hercules is 20.1 m shorter than the 80.5 m median for heavy lifts on record, with a beam of 22.3 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5303897 this registry holds 6 other vessels, whose median build year is 1955 and which range from 1951 to 1958. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series; no build year is recorded for this vessel itself.
Its IMO number, 5303897, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 3×6 + 0×5 + 3×4 + 8×3 + 9×2 = 107 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.
