SS City of Milwaukee

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 33 ferrys flying the United States flag.

SS City of Milwaukee was built in 1931, making it 95 years old. It is one of 47 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 526 GT. Across the whole of the 1930s the registry holds 552 vessels, median 1,138 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 4 vessels to Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, with a median tonnage of 14,075 GT, delivered between 1931 and 1959. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 109.7 m overall, SS City of Milwaukee is 5.7 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 17.1 m and a draft of 5.8 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5073909 this registry holds 14 other vessels, whose median build year is 1952 and which range from 1931 to 1960. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1931.

Its IMO number, 5073909, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 0×6 + 7×5 + 3×4 + 9×3 + 0×2 = 109 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.