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 136 naval / patrols flying the United States flag.
USS Wichita was built in 1966, making it 60 years old. It is one of 440 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 839 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 12 vessels to Fore River Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 44,543 GT, delivered between 1932 and 1985. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 200.0 m overall, USS Wichita is 113.5 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 8644230 this registry holds 20 other vessels, whose median build year is 1971 and which range from 1943 to 2003. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1966.
Its IMO number, 8644230, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 6×6 + 4×5 + 4×4 + 2×3 + 3×2 = 140 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.
