At 48,632 gross tons, USNS Pollux is the 10,164th 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 8.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 20th 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 Pollux is the 92nd 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 12 are larger by tonnage.
USNS Pollux was built in 1973, making it 53 years old. It is one of 2,097 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,435 GT; within it this ship is the 133rd largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 57 vessels to AG Weser, with a median tonnage of 10,552 GT, delivered between 1906 and 1981. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 288.0 m overall, USNS Pollux is 187.0 m longer than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record, with a beam of 105.0 m and a draft of 36.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7319632 this registry holds 57 other vessels, whose median build year is 1973 and which range from 1959 to 1975. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1973.
Its IMO number, 7319632, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 3×6 + 1×5 + 9×4 + 6×3 + 3×2 = 132 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.
