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Ro-Ro

Argyle

IMO 9365178MMSI 235052541Call sign MQEZ7United KingdomBuilt 2007

Operated by Caledonian MacBrayne

Photo: User:Dave souza · CC BY-SA 2.5 · file

Largest in this registry

#53,962

of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage

Largest ro-ro

#533

of 799 of this type with a recorded tonnage

Largest in its fleet

#16

of 41 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage

In brief

About Argyle

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MV Argyle (Scottish Gaelic: Earra-Ghàidheal) is a ferry operated by Caledonian MacBrayne on the route between Wemyss Bay on the Scottish mainland and Rothesay on the Isle of Bute ('Sea Road to Rothesay'). She is the seventh Clyde ship to have the name Argyle.

Quoted from MV Argyle on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

In context

How Argyle 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 2,643 gross tons, Argyle is the 53,962nd 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 2.3 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 877 ro-ros held here, it ranks 533rd by tonnage — larger than 33% of that group. Their median tonnage is 7,395 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 34,011 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Italy (62 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, with 16 hulls on record.

United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which Argyle is the 999th 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 25 ro-ros flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 20 are larger by tonnage.

Argyle was built in 2007, making it 19 years old. It is one of 2,469 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,473 GT; within it this ship is the 1,749th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 63 vessels to Remontowa, with a median tonnage of 2,448 GT, delivered between 1980 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 70.0 m overall, Argyle is 55.0 m shorter than the 125.0 m median for ro-ros on record, with a beam of 15.3 m and a draft of 3.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9365178 this registry holds 68 other vessels, whose median build year is 2007 and which range from 2005 to 2010. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2007.

Its IMO number, 9365178, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 6×5 + 5×4 + 1×3 + 7×2 = 148 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.