USNS Cesar Chavez

At 43,758 gross tons, USNS Cesar Chavez is the 11,736th 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 7.3 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 33rd by tonnage — larger than 99% 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 Cesar Chavez is the 104th 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 18 are larger by tonnage.

USNS Cesar Chavez was built in 2012, making it 14 years old. It is one of 2,747 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 697th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 48 vessels to NASSCO, with a median tonnage of 43,758 GT, delivered between 1960 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 210.0 m overall, USNS Cesar Chavez is 109.0 m longer than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record, with a beam of 105.6 m and a draft of 29.9 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9593127 this registry holds 68 other vessels, whose median build year is 2012 and which range from 2010 to 2015. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2012.

Its IMO number, 9593127, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 5×6 + 9×5 + 3×4 + 1×3 + 2×2 = 157 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.