USNS Mizar

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 977 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the United States flag.

USNS Mizar was built in 1958, making it 68 years old. It is one of 267 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 718 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 59 vessels to Avondale Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 25,742 GT, delivered between 1945 and 2006. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 79.9 m overall, USNS Mizar is 35.1 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8834873 this registry holds 41 other vessels, whose median build year is 1989 and which range from 1944 to 1990. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1958.

Its IMO number, 8834873, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 8×6 + 3×5 + 4×4 + 8×3 + 7×2 = 173 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.