United States is the country of registry for 2,278 vessels in this directory. 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 90 research / surveys flying the United States flag.
NOAAS George B. Kelez was built in 1943, making it 83 years old. It is one of 142 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 5,745 GT. Across the whole of the 1940s the registry holds 1,039 vessels, median 4,053 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 47 vessels to Ingalls Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 8,741 GT, delivered between 1943 and 2005. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 48.0 m overall, NOAAS George B. Kelez is 23.0 m shorter than the 71.0 m median for research / surveys on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8942759 this registry holds 48 other vessels, whose median build year is 1976 and which range from 1935 to 1998. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1943.
Its IMO number, 8942759, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 9×6 + 4×5 + 2×4 + 7×3 + 5×2 = 169 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
