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Military Sealift Command

State-operated fleet

Headquarters: Arlington County
Founded: 1949
Employees: —

Official website

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

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No published figure available

Container capacity

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Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

331,823

Summed over 12 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Military Sealift Command is

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The Military Sealift Command (MSC) is an organization that controls the replenishment and military transport ships of the United States Navy. Military Sealift Command has the responsibility for providing sealift and ocean transportation for all US military services as well as for other government agencies. It first came into existence on 9 July 1949 when the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) became solely responsible for the Department of Defense's ocean transport needs. The MSTS was renamed the Military Sealift Command in 1970.

During a time charter MSC takes control of a merchant ship and operates it for the chartered amount of time. During this time the ship is crewed by civilian mariners and MSC pays for all expenses. Time chartered ships are not subject to inspections from foreign governments when in port, and MSC has operational control.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: —
Legal form: —
Country of registration: United States
Headquarters: Arlington County
Formed in: —
Founded: 1949
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 38.8803, -77.1083

Ships on record here: 15
Vessel types operated: 8
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 24.8 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1980
Newest vessel on record: 2021
Largest vessel by tonnage: 58,265
Average tonnage: 27,652
Market share: —
Parent company: United States Department of the Navy
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 15 vessels this registry attributes to Military Sealift Command. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

By shipbuilder

NASSCO4

General Dynamics3

Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding2

Austal USA2

Vyborg Shipyard1

Bremer Vulkan1

Gulf Island Shipyards1

Todd Pacific Shipyards Corporation

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. 2 deliveries fall inside this window.

Year	Ships delivered	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	1	9,781	14
2018	0	—	14
2019	0	—	14
2020	0	—	14
2021	1	—	15
2022	0	—	15
2023	0	—	15
2024	0	—	15
2025	0	—	15
2026	0	—	15

Vessel records

Ships on record · Offshore supply

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Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
MV HOS Dominator	9265811	Offshore supply	United States	2002	1,848	2,087	67.2 m	Gulf Island Shipyards

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How Military Sealift Command compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

United States is the country of registration for 144 commercial operators in this directory. Between them those companies hold 435 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in United States.

Founded in 1949, Military Sealift Command is 77 years old. This directory holds 79 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.