Westrac

At 143 gross tons, Westrac is the 82,502nd 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 42 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,471 tugs held here, it ranks 1,142nd by tonnage — larger than 10% of that group. Their median tonnage is 393 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 1,733 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (239 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Damen Shipyards Gorinchem, with 62 hulls on record.

United States is the country of registry for 2,278 vessels in this directory, of which Westrac is the 1,487th 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 239 tugs flying the United States flag, of which 170 are larger by tonnage.

Westrac was built in 1987, making it 39 years old. It is one of 819 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,937 GT; within it this ship is the 752nd 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 3 vessels to Western Towboat Company, with a median tonnage of 497 GT, delivered between 1987 and 2012. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 23.2 m overall, Westrac is 9.1 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 8812849 this registry holds 46 other vessels, whose median build year is 1990 and which range from 1987 to 1991. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.