USS Nanticoke

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 239 tugs flying the United States flag.

USS Nanticoke was built in 1970, making it 56 years old. It is one of 336 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,669 GT. 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 16 vessels to Peterson Builders, with a median tonnage of 3,162 GT, delivered between 1970 and 1986. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 33.2 m overall, USS Nanticoke is within a metre of the 32.3 m median length for tugs on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9068574 this registry holds 15 other vessels, whose median build year is 2003 and which range from 1944 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1970.

Its IMO number, 9068574, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 0×6 + 6×5 + 8×4 + 5×3 + 7×2 = 154 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.