American Trader

At 41,292 gross tons, American Trader is the 13,082nd 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 6.9 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,402 tankers held here, it ranks 235th by tonnage — larger than 90% of that group. Their median tonnage is 8,256 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 42,340 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (219 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 175 hulls on record.

United States is the country of registry for 2,278 vessels in this directory, of which American Trader is the 118th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (977 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,706 GT. Browse every ship flagged United States.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 19 tankers flying the United States flag, of which none is larger than American Trader.

American Trader was built in 1969, making it 57 years old. It is one of 814 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 992 GT; within it this ship is the 16th largest. Across the whole of the 1960s the registry holds 4,074 vessels, median 844 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 249.0 m overall, American Trader is 110.0 m longer than the 139.0 m median for tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7004328 this registry holds 56 other vessels, whose median build year is 1969 and which range from 1928 to 1972. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1969.

Its IMO number, 7004328, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 78 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.