Argo I

At 146,393 gross tons, Argo I is the 1,555th 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 24 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 84th by tonnage — larger than 99% 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.

Saint Kitts and Nevis is the country of registry for 545 vessels in this directory, of which Argo I is the 6th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (324 ships), and the median vessel measures 10,964 GT. Browse every ship flagged Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 31 bulk carriers flying the Saint Kitts and Nevis flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.

Argo I was built in 1995, making it 31 years old. It is one of 1,092 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,255 GT; within it this ship is the 26th 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.

At 326.0 m overall, Argo I is 136.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9083964 this registry holds 45 other vessels, whose median build year is 1994 and which range from 1993 to 1996. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1995.

Its IMO number, 9083964, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 154 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.