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.
Terrapin Island was built in 1981, making it 45 years old. It is one of 1,653 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,186 GT. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 59 vessels to Avondale Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 25,742 GT, delivered between 1945 and 2006. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 103.6 m overall, Terrapin Island is 11.4 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7819539 this registry holds 55 other vessels, whose median build year is 1979 and which range from 1978 to 1982. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1981.
Its IMO number, 7819539, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 8×6 + 1×5 + 9×4 + 5×3 + 3×2 = 159 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
