USS Naugatuck

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 Naugatuck was built in 1963, making it 63 years old. It is one of 270 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,002 GT. Across the whole of the 1960s the registry holds 4,074 vessels, median 844 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 4 vessels to Higgins Industries, with a median tonnage of 787 GT, delivered between 1944 and 1963. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 30.6 m overall, USS Naugatuck is 1.8 m shorter than the 32.3 m median for tugs on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8728165 this registry holds 42 other vessels, whose median build year is 1986 and which range from 1963 to 1989. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1963.

Its IMO number, 8728165, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 7×6 + 2×5 + 8×4 + 1×3 + 6×2 = 155 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.