Italy is the country of registry for 918 vessels in this directory. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (488 ships), and the median vessel measures 4,975 GT. Browse every ship flagged Italy.
USS Arthur W. Radford was built in 1981, making it 45 years old. It is one of 1,653 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,186 GT. 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 47 vessels to Ingalls Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 8,741 GT, delivered between 1943 and 2005. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 199.7 m overall, USS Arthur W. Radford is 113.2 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 7900053 this registry holds 33 other vessels, whose median build year is 1979 and which range from 1979 to 1998. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1981.
Its IMO number, 7900053, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 9×6 + 0×5 + 0×4 + 0×3 + 5×2 = 113 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.
