At 43,758 gross tons, USNS Alan Shepard is the 11,736th 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 7.3 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 1,460th by tonnage — larger than 77% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.
United States is the country of registry for 2,278 vessels in this directory, of which USNS Alan Shepard is the 104th 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 37 bulk carriers flying the United States flag, of which none is larger than USNS Alan Shepard.
USNS Alan Shepard was built in 2007, making it 19 years old. It is one of 2,469 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,473 GT; within it this ship is the 371st largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 48 vessels to NASSCO, with a median tonnage of 43,758 GT, delivered between 1960 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 210.0 m overall, USNS Alan Shepard is 20.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record, with a beam of 32.3 m and a draft of 9.1 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9284350 this registry holds 79 other vessels, whose median build year is 2004 and which range from 2003 to 2007. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2007.
Its IMO number, 9284350, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 8×5 + 4×4 + 3×3 + 5×2 = 150 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.
