Pvt. Franklin J. Phillips

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 977 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the United States flag.

Pvt. Franklin J. Phillips was built in 1980, making it 46 years old. It is one of 1,736 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,301 GT. 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 230.3 m overall, Pvt. Franklin J. Phillips is 115.3 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7717169 this registry holds 45 other vessels, whose median build year is 1979 and which range from 1977 to 1981. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1980.

Its IMO number, 7717169, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 7×6 + 1×5 + 7×4 + 1×3 + 6×2 = 139 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.