USNS Bob Hope

At 69,365 gross tons, USNS Bob Hope is the 6,622nd 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 12 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 9th by tonnage — larger than 100% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,963 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 10,970 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (565 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Cestné a Stavebné Mechanizmy Tisovec, with 137 hulls on record.

United States is the country of registry for 2,278 vessels in this directory, of which USNS Bob Hope is the 35th 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 121 general cargos flying the United States flag, of which 6 are larger by tonnage.

USNS Bob Hope was built in 1998, making it 28 years old. It is one of 1,367 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,381 GT; within it this ship is the 70th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 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 289.3 m overall, USNS Bob Hope is 188.3 m longer than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record, with a beam of 106.0 m and a draft of 34.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9085297 this registry holds 55 other vessels, whose median build year is 1994 and which range from 1993 to 1999. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1998.

Its IMO number, 9085297, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 0×6 + 8×5 + 5×4 + 2×3 + 9×2 = 147 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.