At 17,927 gross tons, USNS Howard O. Lorenzen is the 28,177th 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 3.0 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 15,764th by tonnage — larger than 68% 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 Howard O. Lorenzen is the 260th 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 100 are larger by tonnage.
USNS Howard O. Lorenzen was built in 2011, making it 15 years old. It is one of 2,848 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 1,614th 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 2 vessels to VT Halter Marine, with a median tonnage of 11,119 GT, delivered between 2007 and 2011. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 163.0 m overall, USNS Howard O. Lorenzen is 48.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 89.0 m and a draft of 21.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9416680 this registry holds 71 other vessels, whose median build year is 2009 and which range from 2006 to 2014. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2011.
Its IMO number, 9416680, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 4×6 + 1×5 + 6×4 + 6×3 + 8×2 = 150 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.
