No gross tonnage is recorded for this vessel, so it cannot be ranked by size. Rank is only shown where the underlying measurement exists.
Vessel particulars
Identification and dimensions
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
- IMO number
- 5290179
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- Call sign
- Flag state
- United Kingdom
- Port of registry
- —
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Unclassified
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrongs
- Yard number
- Launched
- —
- Year built
- 1949
- Designed to carry
- —
- Owner
- —
- Operator on record
- —
Measurements
- Gross tonnage
- —
- Net tonnage
- —
- Displacement
- —
- Length overall
- 185.7 m
- Beam
- —
- Draft
- —
- Service speed
- —
In context
How Rangitoto compares
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.
United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory. 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 1,835 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the United Kingdom flag.
Rangitoto was built in 1949, making it 77 years old. It is one of 107 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,256 GT. Across the whole of the 1940s the registry holds 1,039 vessels, median 4,053 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 21 vessels to Vickers-Armstrongs, with a median tonnage of 12,653 GT, delivered between 1931 and 2010. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 185.7 m overall, Rangitoto is 70.7 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5290179 this registry holds 16 other vessels, whose median build year is 1953 and which range from 1900 to 1962. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1949.
Its IMO number, 5290179, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 2×6 + 9×5 + 0×4 + 1×3 + 7×2 = 109 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by IMO number
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at Vickers-Armstrongs
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.
Provenance
Where this page comes from
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryNo English Wikipedia article is linked to this vessel, so no summary is shown.
PhotographNo freely licensed photograph of this vessel is held, so none is shown.