Largest in this registry
#16,737
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest bulk carrier
#2,884
of 6,489 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#46
of 177 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
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
- 8320559
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- 338481000
- Call sign
- Flag state
- United States
- Port of registry
- —
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Bulk carrier
In context
How MV Maj. Bernard F. Fisher 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 34,318 gross tons, MV Maj. Bernard F. Fisher is the 16,737th 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 5.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 2,884th by tonnage — larger than 56% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.
United States is the country of registry for 2,278 vessels in this directory, of which MV Maj. Bernard F. Fisher is the 146th 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 37 bulk carriers flying the United States flag, of which 19 are larger by tonnage.
MV Maj. Bernard F. Fisher was built in 1985, making it 41 years old. It is one of 1,312 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,782 GT; within it this ship is the 119th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 190 vessels to Odense Steel Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 52,186 GT, delivered between 1924 and 2012. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 198.9 m overall, MV Maj. Bernard F. Fisher is 8.9 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8320559 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Record
Notable events
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.
- 1984ship launching
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at Odense Steel Shipyard
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
Other ships operated by United States Navy
Provenance
Where this page comes from
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryNo English Wikipedia article is linked to this vessel, so no summary is shown.
PhotographNo freely licensed photograph of this vessel is held, so none is shown.
