Arco Beck

At 3,325 gross tons, Arco Beck is the 50,462nd 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 1.8 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 360 dredgers held here, it ranks 134th by tonnage — larger than 62% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,086 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 11,701 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is People's Republic of China (43 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Royal IHC, with 21 hulls on record.

United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which Arco Beck is the 918th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 12 dredgers flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 4 are larger by tonnage.

Arco Beck was built in 1989, making it 37 years old. It is one of 1,131 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,938 GT; within it this ship is the 444th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 85 vessels to Royal IHC, with a median tonnage of 9,125 GT, delivered between 1947 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 99.6 m overall, Arco Beck is 19.6 m longer than the 80.0 m median for dredgers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8817722 this registry holds 54 other vessels, whose median build year is 1990 and which range from 1988 to 1994. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1989.

Its IMO number, 8817722, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 8×6 + 1×5 + 7×4 + 7×3 + 2×2 = 162 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.