At 72,737 gross tons, USNS Watkins is the 6,414th 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 12 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 877 ro-ros held here, it ranks 1st by tonnage — larger than 100% of that group. Their median tonnage is 7,395 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 34,011 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Italy (62 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, with 16 hulls on record.
United States is the country of registry for 2,278 vessels in this directory, of which USNS Watkins is the 28th 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 17 ro-ros flying the United States flag, of which none is larger than USNS Watkins.
USNS Watkins was built in 2001, making it 25 years old. It is one of 1,268 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 14,062 GT; within it this ship is the 99th 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 289.6 m overall, USNS Watkins is 164.6 m longer than the 125.0 m median for ro-ros on record, with a beam of 106.0 m and a draft of 34.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9232230 this registry holds 76 other vessels, whose median build year is 2002 and which range from 1999 to 2004. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2001.
Its IMO number, 9232230, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 3×5 + 2×4 + 2×3 + 3×2 = 110 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.
