SS Cape May

At 47,674 gross tons, SS Cape May is the 10,415th 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 8.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 36 barges held here, it ranks 1st by tonnage — larger than 100% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,483 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 33,130 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (8 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Peene-Werft, with 2 hulls on record.

United States is the country of registry for 2,278 vessels in this directory, of which SS Cape May is the 96th 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 8 barges flying the United States flag, of which none is larger than SS Cape May.

SS Cape May was built in 1972, making it 54 years old. It is one of 1,928 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,016 GT; within it this ship is the 117th 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 12 vessels to Fore River Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 44,543 GT, delivered between 1932 and 1985. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 275.0 m overall, SS Cape May is 168.3 m longer than the 106.7 m median for barges on record, with a beam of 106.0 m and a draft of 40.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7205958 this registry holds 60 other vessels, whose median build year is 1972 and which range from 1945 to 1972. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1972.

Its IMO number, 7205958, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 2×6 + 0×5 + 5×4 + 9×3 + 5×2 = 118 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.