Arkturus

At 144 gross tons, Arkturus is the 82,469th 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 42 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 48,520th by tonnage — larger than 2% 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.

Estonia is the country of registry for 81 vessels in this directory, of which Arkturus is the 54th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (50 ships), and the median vessel measures 916 GT. Browse every ship flagged Estonia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 50 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Estonia flag, of which 27 are larger by tonnage.

Arkturus 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 2,031st 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.

At 19.1 m overall, Arkturus is 95.9 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9375331 this registry holds 67 other vessels, whose median build year is 2007 and which range from 2005 to 2012. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2006.

Its IMO number, , carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 151 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.