At 2,999 gross tons, Arklow Rainbow is the 51,522nd 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 2.0 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 29,375th by tonnage — larger than 41% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.
Ireland is the country of registry for 121 vessels in this directory, of which Arklow Rainbow is the 17th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (75 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,264 GT. Browse every ship flagged Ireland.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 75 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Ireland flag, of which 7 are larger by tonnage.
Arklow Rainbow was built in 2006, making it 20 years old. It is one of 2,118 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,539 GT; within it this ship is the 1,345th 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 73 vessels to Barkmeijer Shipyards, with a median tonnage of 2,531 GT, delivered between 1971 and 2022. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 90.0 m overall, Arklow Rainbow is 25.0 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 14.0 m and a draft of 5.7 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9344497 this registry holds 86 other vessels, whose median build year is 2007 and which range from 2004 to 2017. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2006.
Its IMO number, 9344497, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 4×5 + 4×4 + 4×3 + 9×2 = 147 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.
