At 508 gross tons, MV Maid of Argyll is the 73,024th 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 12 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 40,877th by tonnage — larger than 18% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.
United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which MV Maid of Argyll is the 1,488th 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 1,835 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 1,120 are larger by tonnage.
MV Maid of Argyll was built in 1953, making it 73 years old. It is one of 179 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,502 GT; within it this ship is the 46th largest. Across the whole of the 1950s the registry holds 2,005 vessels, median 960 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 6 vessels to A. & J. Inglis, with a median tonnage of 553 GT, delivered between 1937 and 1953. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 49.7 m overall, MV Maid of Argyll is 65.3 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 28.0 m and a draft of 5.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5217490 this registry holds 16 other vessels, whose median build year is 1954 and which range from 1927 to 1962. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1953.
Its IMO number, 5217490, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 2×6 + 1×5 + 7×4 + 4×3 + 9×2 = 110 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.
