Raven Arrow

At 46,295 gross tons, Raven Arrow is the 10,751st 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 7.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 23rd by tonnage — larger than 100% 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 Raven Arrow is the 510th 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 none is larger than Raven Arrow.

Raven Arrow was built in 2012, making it 14 years old. It is one of 2,747 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 563rd 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.

At 210.0 m overall, Raven Arrow is 109.0 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 9574858 this registry holds 42 other vessels, whose median build year is 2011 and which range from 2009 to 2013. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2012.

Its IMO number, 9574858, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 178 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.