MV Argo Merchant
ship
Current position
No live position received yet. Identity and particulars below.
Identity & particulars
- Name
- MV Argo Merchant
- IMO number
- 5022522
- MMSI
- —
- Call sign
- —
- Flag
- —
- Vessel type
- ship
- Gross tonnage
- 18,743
- Deadweight (DWT)
- —
- Length overall
- 195.5 m
- Beam
- 25.7 m
- Year built
- 1953
- Builder
- Howaldtswerke Hamburg
- Registered owner
- —
- Operator
- —
Particulars are enriched from public sources as they become available. Position & identity are derived live from AIS.
About MV Argo Merchant
MV Argo Merchant was a Liberian-flagged oil tanker built by Howaldtswerke in Hamburg, Germany in 1953, most noted for running aground and subsequently sinking southeast of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, causing one of the largest marine oil spills in history. Throughout the vessel's troubled past, she was involved in more than a dozen major shipping incidents including two other groundings; once in Indonesia while named Permina Samudra III, and again in Sicily while named Vari; as well as a collision in Japan. Because of her checkered career and sinking, Argo Merchant was featured in the "worst ship" category in the 1979 publication, The Book of Heroic Failures.
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is MV Argo Merchant now?
- MV Argo Merchant has not transmitted a live position recently. Its identity and particulars are kept on this page, and its position will appear here the moment it is detected on AIS again.
- What kind of ship is MV Argo Merchant?
- MV Argo Merchant is a ship, built in 1953 by Howaldtswerke Hamburg. The vessel is 195.5 m long with a beam of 25.7 m and has a gross tonnage of 18,743.
- Has MV Argo Merchant been detained or sanctioned?
- No detentions or sanctions for MV Argo Merchant appear in the public sources Seadar tracks (USCG PSIX inspections and the OFAC SDN list).