USNS GySgt. Fred W. Stockham

At 61,256 gross tons, USNS GySgt. Fred W. Stockham is the 7,813th 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 10 times 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 4,319th by tonnage — larger than 91% 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 USNS GySgt. Fred W. Stockham is the 48th 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 17 are larger by tonnage.

USNS GySgt. Fred W. Stockham was built in 1981, making it 45 years old. It is one of 1,653 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,186 GT; within it this ship is the 36th largest. 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 190 vessels to Odense Steel Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 52,186 GT, delivered between 1924 and 2012. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 276.0 m overall, USNS GySgt. Fred W. Stockham is 161.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 106.0 m and a draft of 36.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7825423 this registry holds 49 other vessels, whose median build year is 1979 and which range from 1978 to 1996. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1981.

Its IMO number, 7825423, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 8×6 + 2×5 + 5×4 + 4×3 + 2×2 = 143 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.