GROUSE ARROW

At 44,398 gross tons, GROUSE ARROW is the 11,176th 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 7.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 31st by tonnage — larger than 99% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,963 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 10,970 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (565 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Cestné a Stavebné Mechanizmy Tisovec, with 137 hulls on record.

The registry attributes 53 vessels to Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 31,820 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2017. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 185.2 m overall, GROUSE ARROW is 84.2 m longer than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8918215 this registry holds 64 other vessels, whose median build year is 1992 and which range from 1989 to 2000. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series; no build year is recorded for this vessel itself.

Its IMO number, 8918215, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 9×6 + 1×5 + 8×4 + 2×3 + 1×2 = 155 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.