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Bulk carrier

Wilson Skaw

IMO 8918459MMSI 314420000Call sign 8PAK4BarbadosBuilt 1996

Operated by Wilson Ship Management

Photo: Cavernia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file

Largest in this registry

#46,993

of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage

Largest bulk carrier

#6,267

of 6,489 of this type with a recorded tonnage

Largest in its fleet

#16

of 119 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage

Vessel particulars

Identification and dimensions

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

IMO number: 8918459
IMO check digit: Valid
MMSI: 314420000
Call sign: 8PAK4
Flag state: Barbados

In context

How Wilson Skaw compares

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 4,197 gross tons, Wilson Skaw is the 46,993rd 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 1.4 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 6,267th by tonnage — larger than 3% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.

Barbados is the country of registry for 215 vessels in this directory, of which Wilson Skaw is the 96th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (85 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,937 GT. Browse every ship flagged Barbados.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 29 bulk carriers flying the Barbados flag, of which 23 are larger by tonnage.

Wilson Skaw was built in 1996, making it 30 years old. It is one of 1,254 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,254 GT; within it this ship is the 729th 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 5 vessels to Apatin Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 4,200 GT, delivered between 1996 and 2005. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 112.7 m overall, Wilson Skaw is 77.3 m shorter than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record, with a beam of 15.2 m and a draft of 6.7 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8918459 this registry holds 58 other vessels, whose median build year is 1992 and which range from 1989 to 2000. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1996.

Its IMO number, 8918459, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 9×6 + 1×5 + 8×4 + 4×3 + 5×2 = 169 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.