RV Kilo Moana

At 3,060 gross tons, RV Kilo Moana is the 51,349th 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 2.0 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 612 research / surveys held here, it ranks 193rd by tonnage — larger than 60% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,180 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 9,452 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (90 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Wärtsilä, with 36 hulls on record.

United States is the country of registry for 2,278 vessels in this directory, of which RV Kilo Moana is the 555th 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 90 research / surveys flying the United States flag, of which 23 are larger by tonnage.

RV Kilo Moana was built in 2002, making it 24 years old. It is one of 1,298 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,563 GT; within it this ship is the 856th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 5 vessels to BAE Systems Southeast Shipyards, with a median tonnage of 3,641 GT, delivered between 2002 and 2016. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 51.8 m overall, RV Kilo Moana is 19.2 m shorter than the 71.0 m median for research / surveys on record, with a beam of 26.8 m and a draft of 7.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9229037 this registry holds 68 other vessels, whose median build year is 2001 and which range from 1992 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2002.

Its IMO number, 9229037, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 2×5 + 9×4 + 0×3 + 3×2 = 127 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.