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Tanker
Operated by United States Navy
Photo: U.S. Navy/Capt. William Strain, USNR-R · Public domain · file
Largest in this registry
#31,518
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest tanker
#869
of 2,270 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#88
of 177 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
SS Mission San Juan was a Type T2-SE-A2 tanker built for the United States Maritime Commission during World War II. After the war she was acquired by the United States Navy as USS Mission San Juan. Later the tanker transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service as USNS Mission San Juan. She was a member of the Mission Buenaventura-class oiler and was named for Mission San Juan Bautista in San Juan Bautista, California.
Vessel particulars
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
Construction
Measurements
In context
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 14,230 gross tons, Kopaa is the 31,518th 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 2.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 2,402 tankers held here, it ranks 869th by tonnage — larger than 62% 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 Kopaa is the 284th 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 12 are larger by tonnage.
Kopaa was built in 1966, making it 60 years old. It is one of 440 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 839 GT; within it this ship is the 15th 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.
The registry attributes 18 vessels to Marinship, with a median tonnage of 14,770 GT, delivered between 1943 and 1966. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 159.6 m overall, Kopaa is 20.6 m longer than the 139.0 m median for tankers on record, with a beam of 20.7 m and a draft of 9.1 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7304261 this registry holds 63 other vessels, whose median build year is 1973 and which range from 1950 to 1973. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1966.
Its IMO number, 7304261, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 3×6 + 0×5 + 4×4 + 2×3 + 6×2 = 101 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among tankers
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Primula | 1992 | 14,332 |
| General Bocharov | 1966 | 14,265 |
| EK-River | 2018 | 14,256 |
| Kopaa (this ship) | 1966 | 14,230 |
| Orange Blossom 2 | 2014 | 14,000 |
| T Rigel | 2020 | 13,872 |
| Ginaldag |
Record
Events recorded against this vessel in the source, with the dates the source gives. An event with no date is listed last rather than assigned one.
Class
| Ship | IMO | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USNS Vanguard | 8835607 | United States | 1944 | 15,309 |
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from USNS Mission San Juan on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy U.S. Navy/Capt. William Strain, USNR-R, reused under Public domain.
| 2002 |
| 13,815 |