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Operated by Bourbon Offshore Norway
Photo: Gordon Leggett · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file
Largest in this registry
#38,594
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#22,085
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#1
of 10 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
Horizon Arctic is an anchor handling tug supply vessel (AHTS) completed in 2016 by Vard Group at its Brattvåg shipyard as Bourbon Arctic for Bourbon Offshore Norway AS, part of the Marseille-based Bourbon group. As of 2023, it is operated by Horizon Maritime of Canada. Under Horizon, it served as the surface support vessel for the Titan submersible during its 2021 and 2022 survey expeditions to the wreck of the Titanic, conducted by OceanGate.
Vessel particulars
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
Construction
Measurements
In context
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 8,143 gross tons, Horizon Arctic is the 38,594th 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 1.4 times 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 22,085th by tonnage — larger than 56% 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.
Canada is the country of registry for 633 vessels in this directory, of which Horizon Arctic is the 123rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (404 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,800 GT. Browse every ship flagged Canada.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 404 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Canada flag, of which 60 are larger by tonnage.
Horizon Arctic was built in 2016, making it 10 years old. It is one of 1,628 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 26,388 GT; within it this ship is the 1,094th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 74 vessels to Vard Brattvaag, with a median tonnage of 3,104 GT, delivered between 1966 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 93.0 m overall, Horizon Arctic is 22.0 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 24.0 m and a draft of 7.8 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9732838 this registry holds 58 other vessels, whose median build year is 2016 and which range from 2014 to 2021. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2016.
Its IMO number, 9732838, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 7×6 + 3×5 + 2×4 + 8×3 + 3×2 = 158 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among vessels this registry holds no type classification for
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Tuna No.3 | 1979 | 8,156 |
| Lumoso | 1982 | 8,147 |
| MV Taku | 1963 | 8,144 |
| Horizon Arctic (this ship) | 2016 | 8,143 |
| Empire Gem | 1941 | 8,139 |
| Kronenfels | 1915 | 8,135 |
| Bongas/Permina 1014 |
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Horizon Arctic on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Gordon Leggett, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
| 1975 |
| 8,133 |