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Naval / patrol

Empire State

IMO 9910313MMSI 366991519Call sign WD02002United StatesBuilt 2023

Operated by State University of New York Maritime College

Photo: RoySmith · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file

Largest in this registry

#22,323

of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage

Largest naval / patrol

#10

of 268 of this type with a recorded tonnage

Largest in its fleet

of 1 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage

In brief

About Empire State

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Empire State VII, callsign WDO2002, IMO number 9910313, is a training ship owned by the United States Maritime Administration and operated by SUNY Maritime College. She is the first vessel in the National Security Multi-Mission Vessel (NSMV) class and has replaced the 1961-built Empire State VI. The new training ship is the seventh vessel to carry the name Empire State for the SUNY Maritime College but its first purpose-built new build. The previous training ships had been converted cargo or military vessels. While SUNY refers to the ship as Empire State VII, US Coast Guard regulations do not allow use of Roman numerals in a ship’s name. Thus, the vessel displays her name as "Empire State" without a numeral.
The preliminary and basic NSMV design was developed by the Herbert Engineering Corp. of Alameda, California, and the rest of the design was completed by DSEC headquartered in Busan, Korea. While primarily a training ship the NSMV class is also to be equipped for disaster relief: a Roll-on/Roll-off side ramp, container space and crane, and a helipad.
The contract for the first two NSMV vessels was signed with Philly Shipyard (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) in April 2020 with anticipated delivery in Spring of 2023. Steel cutting for the first vessel began in December 2020. Its keel was laid on 10 December 2021 and launched on 24 September 2022.

Vessel particulars

Identification and dimensions

Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.

Identification

IMO number: 9910313
IMO check digit: Valid
MMSI: 366991519
Call sign: WD02002
Flag state: United States
Port of registry: New York City
Vessel class: National Security Multi-Mission Vessel
Status: in service
Name recorded in: mul

Construction

Type: Naval / patrol
Builder: Hanwha Philly Shipyard
Yard number
Launched: —
Year built: 2023
Designed to carry: —
Owner: United States Maritime Administration
Operator on record: State University of New York Maritime College

Measurements

Gross tonnage: 25,985
Net tonnage: 7,795
Displacement: 19,592 t
Length overall: 160.1 m
Beam: 27.0 m
Draft: 6.5 m
Service speed: —
Passenger capacity: 760
Deadweight: 7,600 t

In context

How Empire State compares

Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

At 25,985 gross tons, Empire State is the 22,323rd 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 4.3 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 611 naval / patrols held here, it ranks 10th by tonnage — larger than 96% of that group. Their median tonnage is 1,325 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 23,606 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (136 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Austal, with 33 hulls on record.

United States is the country of registry for 2,278 vessels in this directory, of which Empire State is the 208th 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 136 naval / patrols flying the United States flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.

Empire State was built in 2023, making it 3 years old. It is one of 144 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 15,666 GT; within it this ship is the 39th largest. Across the whole of the 2020s the registry holds 1,769 vessels, median 29,777 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 4 vessels to Hanwha Philly Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 25,985 GT, delivered between 2018 and 2026. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 160.1 m overall, Empire State is 73.5 m longer than the 86.5 m median for naval / patrols on record, with a beam of 27.0 m and a draft of 6.5 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9910313 this registry holds 12 other vessels, whose median build year is 2022 and which range from 2021 to 2024. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2023.

Its IMO number, 9910313, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 9×6 + 1×5 + 0×4 + 3×3 + 1×2 = 133 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.

Nearest by tonnage among naval / patrols

Ship	Built	Gross tonnage
RFA Tidesurge	2018	29,324
RFA Tidespring	2017	29,324
HMS Ark Royal	1985	28,766
Empire State (this ship)	2023	25,985
USNS John Ericsson	1991	25,742
USNS Yukon	1994	25,742

Empire State

About Empire State

Identification and dimensions

How Empire State compares

Notable events

Sister ships in the National Security Multi-Mission Vessel class

Where this page comes from

Ship	IMO	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage
Patriot State	9910325	United States	2024	25,985
State of Maine	9929546	United States	2026	25,985