MV Arctic Sunrise

At 949 gross tons, MV Arctic Sunrise is the 66,644th 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 6.3 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 612 research / surveys held here, it ranks 346th by tonnage — larger than 28% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,180 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 9,452 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (90 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Wärtsilä, with 36 hulls on record.

Netherlands is the country of registry for 1,546 vessels in this directory, of which MV Arctic Sunrise is the 972nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (839 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,810 GT. Browse every ship flagged Netherlands.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 10 research / surveys flying the Netherlands flag, of which 5 are larger by tonnage.

MV Arctic Sunrise was built in 1975, making it 51 years old. It is one of 1,913 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,929 GT; within it this ship is the 1,188th largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 8 vessels to Vaagen Verft, with a median tonnage of 2,148 GT, delivered between 1974 and 1986. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 49.6 m overall, MV Arctic Sunrise is 21.4 m shorter than the 71.0 m median for research / surveys on record, with a beam of 11.6 m and a draft of 5.3 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7382902 this registry holds 82 other vessels, whose median build year is 1975 and which range from 1974 to 1977. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1975.

Its IMO number, 7382902, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 3×6 + 8×5 + 2×4 + 9×3 + 0×2 = 142 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.