At 1,930 gross tons, USCGC Hickory is the 58,483rd 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 3.1 times smaller than 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 33,158th by tonnage — larger than 33% 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.
United States is the country of registry for 2,278 vessels in this directory, of which USCGC Hickory is the 723rd 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 977 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the United States flag, of which 234 are larger by tonnage.
USCGC Hickory was built in 2003, making it 23 years old. It is one of 1,383 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,954 GT; within it this ship is the 1,035th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
At 68.6 m overall, USCGC Hickory is 46.4 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 46.0 m and a draft of 13.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9259965 this registry holds 79 other vessels, whose median build year is 2003 and which range from 2001 to 2014. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2003.
Its IMO number, 9259965, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 5×5 + 9×4 + 9×3 + 6×2 = 175 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.
