Argo

At 666 gross tons, Argo is the 70,672nd 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 9.0 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,411 fishing vessels held here, it ranks 1,348th by tonnage — larger than 41% of that group. Their median tonnage is 738 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 2,773 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Russia (797 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Kuznia na Rybalskomu, with 175 hulls on record.

Russia is the country of registry for 2,810 vessels in this directory, of which Argo is the 2,247th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (830 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,293 GT. Browse every ship flagged Russia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 797 fishing vessels flying the Russia flag, of which 599 are larger by tonnage.

Argo was built in 1987, making it 39 years old. It is one of 819 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,937 GT; within it this ship is the 605th 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.

At 55.0 m overall, Argo is 1.0 m longer than the 54.0 m median for fishing vessels on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8803422 this registry holds 25 other vessels, whose median build year is 1989 and which range from 1987 to 1991. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1987.

Its IMO number, 8803422, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 = 132 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.