Arctic Princess

At 121,597 gross tons, Arctic Princess is the 2,180th 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 20 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 270 lng carriers held here, it ranks 31st by tonnage — larger than 88% of that group. Their median tonnage is 105,826 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 128,416 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Marshall Islands (37 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Samsung Heavy Industries, with 39 hulls on record.

Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which Arctic Princess is the 30th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,126 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,102 GT. Browse every ship flagged Norway.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 7 lng carriers flying the Norway flag, of which none is larger than Arctic Princess.

Arctic Princess was built in 2006, making it 20 years old. It is one of 2,118 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,539 GT; within it this ship is the 20th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 117 vessels to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery, with a median tonnage of 61,321 GT, delivered between 1955 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 288.0 m overall, Arctic Princess is within a metre of the 288.0 m median length for lng carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9271248 this registry holds 48 other vessels, whose median build year is 2004 and which range from 2002 to 2007. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2006.

Its IMO number, 9271248, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 7×5 + 1×4 + 2×3 + 4×2 = 128 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.