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General cargo
Operated by United States Navy
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Largest in this registry
#6,622
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest general cargo
#9
of 5,539 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#10
of 177 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
MV Nelson V. Brittin, formerly USNS Brittin (T-AKR-305), is a Bob Hope-class roll-on/roll-off vehicle cargo ship of the United States Navy. She was built by Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, New Orleans and delivered to the Navy on July 11, 2002. They assigned her to the United States Department of Defense's Military Sealift Command. Brittin is named for Medal of Honor recipient Sergeant First Class Nelson V. Brittin, and is one of 11 Surge LMSRs operated by a private company under contract to the Military Sealift Command. She is assigned to the MSC Atlantic surge force and is maintained in Ready Operational Status 4.
On April 12, 2023, Brittin was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
As of April 30, 2024 she is moored in Portland, OR.
Vessel particulars
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
Construction
Measurements
In context
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 69,365 gross tons, USNS Brittin 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 Brittin 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 Brittin was built in 2002, making it 24 years old. It is one of 1,298 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,563 GT; within it this ship is the 123rd 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.
The registry attributes 5 vessels to Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, with a median tonnage of 69,365 GT, delivered between 1998 and 2003. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 289.3 m overall, USNS Brittin 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 9193575 this registry holds 54 other vessels, whose median build year is 2000 and which range from 1998 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2002.
Its IMO number, 9193575, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 9×5 + 3×4 + 5×3 + 7×2 = 155 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among general cargos
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| USNS Pomeroy | 2001 | 72,737 |
| USNS Sisler | 1998 | 72,718 |
| Morning Lady | 2010 | 70,853 |
| USNS Brittin (this ship) | 2002 | 69,365 |
| USNS Montford Point | 2013 | 61,185 |
| Emerald Ace | 2012 | 60,154 |
| USNS John Glenn |
Record
Events recorded against this vessel in the source, with the dates the source gives. An event with no date is listed last rather than assigned one.
Class
| Ship | IMO | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USNS Bob Hope | 9085297 | United States | 1998 | 69,365 |
| USNS Seay | 9116838 | United States | 1998 | 69,365 |
| USNS Pililaau | 9178355 | United States | 2001 | 69,365 |
| USNS Benavidez | 9218210 | United States | 2003 | 69,365 |
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from MV Nelson V. Brittin on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Unknown authorUnknown author, reused under Public domain.
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