SS William Clay Ford

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.

SS William Clay Ford was built in 1953, making it 73 years old. It is one of 179 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,502 GT. Across the whole of the 1950s the registry holds 2,005 vessels, median 960 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 24 vessels to Great Lakes Engineering Works, with a median tonnage of 8,018 GT, delivered between 1905 and 1960. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 197.2 m overall, SS William Clay Ford is 82.2 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 70.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5390412 this registry holds 13 other vessels, whose median build year is 1936 and which range from 1910 to 1956. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1953.

Its IMO number, 5390412, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 3×6 + 9×5 + 0×4 + 4×3 + 1×2 = 112 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.