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USNS Zeus

IMO 7932408MMSI 367212000Call sign USGOVUnited StatesBuilt 1984

Operated by United States Navy

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Largest in this registry

#30,186

of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage

Largest unclassified

#16,938

of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage

Largest in its fleet

#81

of 177 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage

In brief

About USNS Zeus

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USNS Zeus (T-ARC-7) is the first cable ship specifically built for the United States Navy. Though planned to be the first of two ships of her class, the second ship was not built, leaving Zeus as the only ship of her class. She is capable of laying 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of cable at depths of up to 9,000 feet (2,700 m).

Quoted from USNS Zeus on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Vessel particulars

Identification and dimensions

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

In context

How USNS Zeus compares

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 15,929 gross tons, USNS Zeus is the 30,186th 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 2.7 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 16,938th by tonnage — larger than 66% 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 Zeus is the 267th 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 104 are larger by tonnage.

USNS Zeus was built in 1984, making it 42 years old. It is one of 1,492 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,366 GT; within it this ship is the 404th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 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 156.5 m overall, USNS Zeus is 41.5 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 73.0 m and a draft of 26.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7932408 this registry holds 43 other vessels, whose median build year is 1981 and which range from 1976 to 1984. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1984.

Its IMO number, 7932408, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 9×6 + 3×5 + 2×4 + 4×3 + 0×2 = 138 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.