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Largest in this registry
#71,314
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest offshore supply
#1,289
of 1,375 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#3
of 4 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
MV Megan, formerly known as MV GO Searcher, was one of SpaceX's two Dragon capsule recovery vessels; it was retired in 2025. Owned by SpaceX through Falcon Landing LLC (which also owns SpaceX's fairing recovery vessels and Elon Musk's private jet), this ship and its sister vessel, MV Shannon, were converted platform supply vessels equipped to retrieve Crew Dragon and Cargo Dragon capsules after splashdown.
When a Dragon capsule was preparing to return to Earth, Megan or Shannon were dispatched to wait near the predetermined landing zone. After splashdown, fast boats deployed from the vessel, approach the capsule to perform safety checks, check on the crew, and prepare it to be lifted aboard the recovery vessel, where the astronauts can exit the capsule. NASA required SpaceX to allow the astronauts to exit within 60 minutes of splashdown.
To support these operations, the vessel was fitted with a specialized crane on the stern to lift the capsule from the water, a medical facility to treat astronauts, and a helipad for rapid transport of astronauts and time-sensitive returned cargo to shore.
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 630 gross tons, Megan is the 71,314th 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 9.5 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,423 offshore supplys held here, it ranks 1,289th by tonnage — larger than 6% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,061 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 4,961 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (283 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is North American Shipbuilding, with 55 hulls on record.
United States is the country of registry for 2,278 vessels in this directory, of which Megan is the 1,105th 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 283 offshore supplys flying the United States flag, of which 241 are larger by tonnage.
Megan was built in 2010, making it 16 years old. It is one of 3,028 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 20,204 GT; within it this ship is the 2,753rd largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 7 vessels to Master Boat Builders, with a median tonnage of 1,158 GT, delivered between 2004 and 2015. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 50.0 m overall, Megan is 17.1 m shorter than the 67.1 m median for offshore supplys on record, with a beam of 11.0 m and a draft of 3.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9591648 this registry holds 86 other vessels, whose median build year is 2012 and which range from 2010 to 2020. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2010.
Its IMO number, 9591648, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 5×6 + 9×5 + 1×4 + 6×3 + 4×2 = 168 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among offshore supplys
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Putford Shore | 1967 | 638 |
| Dibba | 1971 | 635 |
| Gagak | 1969 | 632 |
| Megan (this ship) | 2010 | 630 |
| Glomar Pride | 2011 | 628 |
| Soteria | 1980 | 626 |
| Elise Mary |
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.
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Megan (ship) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy U.S. Space Command photo by Sean Castellano, reused under Public domain.
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