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General cargo
Operated by United States Navy
Photo: Exact author unknown; US Navy · Public domain · file
Largest in this registry
#7,836
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest general cargo
#13
of 5,539 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#21
of 177 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
USNS Montford Point (T-ESD-1), (formerly T-MLP-1), the lead ship of her class of Expeditionary Transfer Docks (ESD), is a ship named in honor of African American Marine Corps recruits who trained at Montford Point Camp, North Carolina, from 1942 to 1949. After $115 million was allocated for long-lead time material and advanced design efforts, in late 2010 General Dynamics's National Steel and Shipbuilding Company was awarded the contract, worth approximately $500 million, to build the first of three planned vessels.
Vessel particulars
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
Construction
Measurements
In context
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 61,185 gross tons, USNS Montford Point is the 7,836th 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 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 13th by tonnage — larger than 100% 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 Montford Point is the 50th 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 10 are larger by tonnage.
USNS Montford Point was built in 2013, making it 13 years old. It is one of 2,213 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 22,566 GT; within it this ship is the 286th 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 239.3 m overall, USNS Montford Point is 138.3 m longer than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9647514 this registry holds 50 other vessels, whose median build year is 2013 and which range from 2011 to 2016. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2013.
Its IMO number, 9647514, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 6×6 + 4×5 + 7×4 + 5×3 + 1×2 = 164 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among general cargos
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| USNS Pililaau | 2001 | 69,365 |
| USNS Benavidez | 2003 | 69,365 |
| USNS Bob Hope | 1998 | 69,365 |
| USNS Montford Point (this ship) | 2013 | 61,185 |
| Emerald Ace | 2012 | 60,154 |
| USNS John Glenn | 2014 | 58,265 |
Record
Events recorded against this vessel in the source, with the dates the source gives. An event with no date is listed last rather than assigned one.
Class
| Ship | IMO | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USNS John Glenn | 9647526 | United States | 2014 | 58,265 |
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from USNS Montford Point on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Exact author unknown; US Navy, reused under Public domain.
| 2022 |
| 58,209 |