United States is the country of registry for 2,278 vessels in this directory. 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 136 naval / patrols flying the United States flag.
USNS Kawishiwi was built in 1954, making it 72 years old. It is one of 182 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,174 GT. Across the whole of the 1950s the registry holds 2,005 vessels, median 960 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 10 vessels to New York Shipbuilding Corporation, with a median tonnage of 15,585 GT, delivered between 1934 and 1977. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 199.7 m overall, USNS Kawishiwi is 113.1 m longer than the 86.5 m median for naval / patrols on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7737078 this registry holds 37 other vessels, whose median build year is 1972 and which range from 1942 to 1978. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1954.
Its IMO number, 7737078, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 7×6 + 3×5 + 7×4 + 0×3 + 7×2 = 148 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.
