USS General T. H. Bliss

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 977 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the United States flag.

USS General T. H. Bliss was built in 1944, making it 82 years old. It is one of 174 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,176 GT. Across the whole of the 1940s the registry holds 1,039 vessels, median 4,053 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 22 vessels to Kaiser Co., Inc., delivered between 1943 and 1945. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 159.4 m overall, USS General T. H. Bliss is 44.4 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 71.0 m and a draft of 26.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 6413778 this registry holds 16 other vessels, whose median build year is 1964 and which range from 1943 to 1964. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1944.

Its IMO number, 6413778, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 6×7 + 4×6 + 1×5 + 3×4 + 7×3 + 7×2 = 118 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.