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Operated by United States Navy
Photo: PH2 Tim W. Tow, USN · Public domain · file
Largest in this registry
#183
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#64
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#1
of 177 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
MV Bridgeton, ex-al-Rekkah, was a Kuwait Oil Company oil tanker that was reflagged to a U.S flag and renamed during Operation Earnest Will. The ship was built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in its Nagasaki shipyard and launched August 14, 1976. Bridgeton was part of the first Earnest Will convoy when it struck an Iranian mine near Farsi Island resulting in a major propaganda victory for the Iranians. In the late 1990s, Bridgeton transferred to Panamanian registry and was renamed Pacific Blue. It was scrapped in 2002 at Haryana Ship Demolition in Alang, India.
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 199,430 gross tons, SS Bridgeton is the 183rd 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 33 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 64th by tonnage — larger than 100% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.
Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which SS Bridgeton is the 34th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 5,698 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Panama flag, of which 5 are larger by tonnage.
SS Bridgeton was built in 1977, making it 49 years old. It is one of 1,791 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 5,622 GT; within it this ship is the 3rd largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 104 vessels to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 21,438 GT, delivered between 1948 and 2020. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 365.9 m overall, SS Bridgeton is 250.9 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 229.9 m and a draft of 96.2 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7376915 this registry holds 32 other vessels, whose median build year is 1975 and which range from 1974 to 1977. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1977.
Its IMO number, 7376915, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 3×6 + 7×5 + 6×4 + 9×3 + 1×2 = 155 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among vessels this registry holds no type classification for
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Sea Qingdao | 2012 | 199,959 |
| Sea Maranhao | 2013 | 199,959 |
| Sea Espirito Santo | 2012 | 199,959 |
| SS Bridgeton (this ship) | 1977 | 199,430 |
| Fso Cidade De Macae Mv15 | 1979 | 199,186 |
| Media Star | 1977 | 199,172 |
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 SS Bridgeton on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy PH2 Tim W. Tow, USN, reused under Public domain.
| Shandong Da Cheng |
| 2012 |
| 198,980 |