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 121 general cargos flying the United States flag.
USNS 1st Lt. Baldomero Lopez was built in 1985, making it 41 years old. It is one of 1,312 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,782 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 6 vessels to General Dynamics, with a median tonnage of 44,543 GT, delivered between 1978 and 1986. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 674.0 m overall, USNS 1st Lt. Baldomero Lopez is 573.0 m longer than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record, with a beam of 106.0 m and a draft of 25.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8302442 this registry holds 48 other vessels, whose median build year is 1986 and which range from 1982 to 1991. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1985.
Its IMO number, 8302442, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 3×6 + 0×5 + 2×4 + 4×3 + 4×2 = 102 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.
