Argentina

At 12,460 gross tons, Argentina is the 32,917th 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 2.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 617 passenger vessels held here, it ranks 39th by tonnage — larger than 92% of that group. Their median tonnage is 909 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 9,718 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Egypt (65 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Meyer Werft, with 16 hulls on record.

Argentina is the country of registry for 296 vessels in this directory, of which Argentina is the 17th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (222 ships), and the median vessel measures 628 GT. Browse every ship flagged Argentina.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 2 passenger vessels flying the Argentina flag, of which none is larger than Argentina.

Argentina was built in 1949, making it 77 years old. It is one of 107 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,256 GT; within it this ship is the 1st largest. Across the whole of the 1940s the registry holds 1,039 vessels, median 4,053 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 21 vessels to Vickers-Armstrongs, with a median tonnage of 12,653 GT, delivered between 1931 and 2010. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 161.5 m overall, Argentina is 100.5 m longer than the 61.0 m median for passenger vessels on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5023174 this registry holds 13 other vessels, whose median build year is 1949 and which range from 1914 to 1958. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1949.

Its IMO number, 5023174, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 0×6 + 2×5 + 3×4 + 1×3 + 7×2 = 74 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.