Penguin Arrow

At 36,008 gross tons, Penguin Arrow is the 15,696th 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 6.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 54th 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 Bahamas is the country of registry for 1,614 vessels in this directory, of which Penguin Arrow is the 674th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (940 ships), and the median vessel measures 30,020 GT. Browse every ship flagged The Bahamas.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 44 general cargos flying the The Bahamas flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.

Penguin Arrow was built in 1997, making it 29 years old. It is one of 1,319 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,388 GT; within it this ship is the 242nd largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 199.0 m overall, Penguin Arrow is 98.0 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 9151814 this registry holds 55 other vessels, whose median build year is 1997 and which range from 1996 to 2001. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1997.

Its IMO number, 9151814, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 124 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.