At 3,296 gross tons, MV Isle of Arran is the 50,519th 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 1.8 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 877 ro-ros held here, it ranks 508th by tonnage — larger than 36% of that group. Their median tonnage is 7,395 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 34,011 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Italy (62 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, with 16 hulls on record.
United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which MV Isle of Arran is the 919th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 25 ro-ros flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 18 are larger by tonnage.
MV Isle of Arran was built in 1984, making it 42 years old. It is one of 1,492 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,366 GT; within it this ship is the 818th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 61 vessels to Ferguson Marine, with a median tonnage of 2,181 GT, delivered between 1939 and 2016. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 84.0 m overall, MV Isle of Arran is 41.0 m shorter than the 125.0 m median for ro-ros on record, with a beam of 16.2 m and a draft of 3.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8219554 this registry holds 28 other vessels, whose median build year is 1984 and which range from 1982 to 1987. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1984.
Its IMO number, 8219554, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 2×6 + 1×5 + 9×4 + 5×3 + 5×2 = 134 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
